CRA Giveaway: Food of Ghosts
We have three copies of Food of Ghosts by Marianne Wheelaghan to giveaway to CRA readers. a Rafflecopter giveaway Food of Ghosts is published by Pilrig Press...
CRA Writing Tips: Editing
A quotation from George Orwell is probably the best place to start when we are thinking about editing:’If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.’ Remember that writing for a...
Sunday Reading: ‘Threescore and Ten’ by Margaret Yorke
Margaret Yorke was a former Chair of the CWA who was a recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. After writing a number of romantic novels, she turned to crime fiction, with five books featuring Pa...
CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition
The CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition is now open. We encourage both published and unpublished writers to enter their short stories, up to 3500 words. The winner will receive £1,000 as wel...
Sunday Reading: CWA Anthology
Click by Alison Joseph ‘You’d know if he was dead, though, wouldn’t you? Your own husband…..’ She stared into the black water. Around her the trees dripped with recent ra...
Internationally acclaimed crime authors join police and crime experts at CSI Portsmouth 2013
Five internationally acclaimed best-selling crime authors will be appearing at this year’s CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 2 November alongside police and forensic experts as part of Portsmouth BookFest. T...
Saturday Sixers: Best Ever Crime Novel
Over the last three weeks we have asked you, the Crime Reader, to vote for the Best Ever Crime Series and Crime Writer. Today is the day to determine which is your Best Ever Crime Novel. You may choos...
Joe Geraghty and Hull – Nick Quantrill
When I started to write the first Joe Geraghty novel, I was always going to write about my home city of Hull. I’d read Ian Rankin’s Rebus series and the way Edinburgh is used as a character left...
Saturday Sixers: The Best Ever Crime Series
Over three Saturdays we will be asking you, the Crime Reader, to vote for the CWA Poll – to be announced on our 60th anniversary at a special event in London. Question Two: What is the Best Ever Crime...
CWA Dagger Shortlists
The Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for the remaining three CWA 2013 Gold Daggers. The eventual winners will be revealed on 24th October, at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 20...
Saturday Sixers: The Best Ever Crime Writer
Over the next three Saturdays we will be asking you, the Crime Reader, to vote for the CWA Poll – to be announced on our 60th anniversary at a special event in London. Question One: Who is the B...
CRA Writing Tips: Variety in Writing
The importance of varying your pace when you are writing cannot be stressed too much. To some extent this will happen naturally through your plot, but you should also use your language to control the...
Crime Poll: Your turn
Three months ago the Crime Writers’ Association asked its members to answer three simple questions as part of the celebrations surrounding the Association’s 60th Anniversary. (It was found...
A Cry for the Cosy- Lesley Cookman
We’re a quietish bunch in the UK, us Mystery Writers. There’s me and a few others, some of whom cross into historical crime. But we are largely ignored by the media, rarely reviewed (except on Amazon)...
CRA Monday Giveaway -CrimeFest
We are delighted to announce our August giveway – a complimentary weekend pass to CrimeFest 2014. CrimeFest was recently listed by the Guardian as one of the best crime writing festivals in the...
Felix Francis: The Low Down
Writer: Felix Francis Area: North Oxfordshire Day job: Ex-physics teacher but now full time writer, and dog-minder Refusal (Dick Francis Novel) is by Felix Francis. Here, we take a look at both w...
Saturday Sixers: Sixty Shades of Grey
Book sales and maternity wards bloomed with the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey. As a bit of fun, I had a look at the CWA’s Diamond Dagger award winners over the years, and wondered how some of t...
Crime Writing Tips: The Importance of Character
Crime fiction is plot driven. Yet however clever and intriguing the storyline, no novel succeeds without strong characters. They need to be credible so readers can believe in them. It is also importan...
Monday Competition: Barbara Nadel
Although we have finished Crime Writing Month we are still going to run some great competitions over the next few weeks. Starting with this one a mystery selection of 3 Cetin Ikmen hardback books by t...
Saturday Sixers: On being 60
The Crime Writer’s Association is 60 this year and so am I. I passed that dubious landmark just a few weeks ago. There, that is my confession, out in the open. And while I am getting things off my ch...
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