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Spring 2024

Some amazing news for 2024… Manc Noir is heading for your TV screens.

Free@Last TV has bought the rights to all three books and they are now being developed into three separate drama series, starting with Black Moss.

Screenwriter Stuart Wright is doing the script and Barry Ryan is supervising the development – he’s the man behind the Agatha Raisin series starring Ashley Jensen.

It’s amazing that these books, that I basically wrote by accident, have come so far.
More details here: David Nolan’s Manc Noir trilogy lands TV adaptation – Prolific North

Spring 2023

Training now is – like it or not – a mix of online and face to face. Online training makes things fairer – anyone can join in from anywhere in the world. Face to face is just that little bit more… fun. I recently ran in-person sessions for the BBC in London for the World Service ‘Future Voices’ scheme. Note before and after photos.

Meanwhile, I also visited nearly 20 libraries in the past few months talking about my fiction writing. I love libraries; all those books for free! Although us authors do actually get a little money when you take our books out under the Public Lending Rights (PLR) scheme. That way everyone gets access to books and writers get a little something in return. That sounds fair to me.

Summer 2022

Face to face training is now officially back – and once again being done in my usual low-key style…

As well as trips south to New Broadcasting House in London to run writing workshops, I headed the other way too, returning to BBC Scotland’s HQ Pacific Quay in Glasgow. I met up with my pal Ian Hamilton while I was there. He (and Major) are the presenters of one of BBC Scotland’s most popular shows, “My Kind of Town”.

I also had my 16th book published, The Ballad of Hanging Lees – Manc Noir 3. Details here

Winter 2021

For the first time in 20 months I did actual face-to-face training… it was for the Future Voices scheme for the BBC at New Broadcasting House in London.

We did visual storytelling, writing to pictures and interviewing. Look closely at the young people in the photos; you’ll be seeing a lot of them in the coming years.

I also squeezed in a talk while I was in London too, discussing one of my Granada music documentaries, These Things Take Time: The Story of The Smiths. It wasn’t on Zoom… real people came!