My Writing History – Charlie Garratt
I’ve written throughout my working life. For many years it was non-fiction; scripts for training videos, committee papers, research reports and community development guides. Then I emigrated to Irelan...
Spotlight on Mark Ellis
Mark was born in 1953 and grew up in Swansea. After studying law at Cambridge and being called to the Bar, he embarked on a roller-coaster business career which culminated with him being a foun...
Hidden in Plain Sight – John Bayliss
You know the situation. You can’t find your keys. You look everywhere for them: in drawers, in cupboards, in the pockets of the jacket you were wearing three days ago, in the cat basket, at the bottom...
John Bayliss – The Butler Did It
Despite the phrase ‘the butler did it’ being such a well worn cliché, there appear to be remarkably few cases of murderous butlers in the whole corpus of crime fiction—not even from the Golden Age, wh...
John Bayliss – The Mystery of the Locked Room Mystery
We’ve all read them. We’ve all (hopefully) been mystified by them, too—those crime stories where how the crime was committed is as much of a puzzle as who committed it. They’re generally called ‘Locke...
Matthew Pritchard – Why Write Crime Fiction?
Like most novelists, I write because I love to read. But when I first tried to set pen to paper, this posed me something of a problem. What was I going to write? After all, I loved to read everything:...
Sherlock Holmes & The Holborn Emporium – Val Andrews
Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. Sherlock Holmes & The Holborn Emporium – Val Andrews Get your free Kindle Edition toda...
John Bayliss – Lights, Camera, Write!
If someone trained a camera on me whilst I was writing, I suspect that the results would not be as dull as you might expect. I don’t mean the typing part (which is dull), but the fact is that hammerin...
Behind the Scenes with an Editor – AJ Waines
Every writer I know talks about Revisions. After submitting a book to an agent or publisher (and after a nail-biting wait (Do they like it?)), the response comes back in an email report outlining sugg...
Featured Author – Alex Shaw
Welcome to Alex Shaw, our featured author for March. In this, his first post for the CRA, we wanted to get to know a little bit more about him. How did you start writing? It was 1996 and I was livi...
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