The Apothecary’s HouseEvery other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. The Apothecary’s House by Adrian Mathews (Download for FREE today 16.06.2015) Tell me more! When...
The Crime Writers’ Association are delighted to reveal the long listed authors for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. Th...
‘I draw from life – but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognise a pig in a sausage.’ I love this quotation from Fanny Trollope, mother of the...
It’s probably true to say that every fiction book intended for publication needs to be slotted into a specific genre. Some of these are very broad such as ‘crime fiction’ or ‘c...
I believe it was Agatha Christie who remarked that murder was a good occupation for a woman at home. What she might have added was that nevertheless it was important for that woman to get out of the h...
National Crime Reading MonthCrime Reading Month has started with a great post from Sarah Hilary. Over the next 30 days we have posts from some amazing crime writers – all members of the Crime Writers Association – in...
Angela Buckley – Skeletons in the ClosetInspiration for writing about crime takes many forms and, for me, it was my own family history that first drew me into the nineteenth century underworld. All families have skeletons in their genealogi...
The return of National Crime Reading MonthNational Crime Writing Month is a UK wide annual reading festival promoting the crime genre. It is a major initiative, coordinated by the CWA, a non-profit group dedicated to the promotion of the genr...
SJI Holiday- Do you really need a writers’ platform?What is a Writers’ Platform? If you search online, you’ll find several definitions, some more complicated than others. But in basic terms, it is a group of things that you do to get your name noticed...
ON EDITING AND BEING EDITED – Natasha CooperLooking back to my years in publishing, I sometimes wonder that I survived without feeling the blade of an axe in my head I knew my authors hated being edited nearly as much as I hated being caught be...
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The CRA Newsletter: August 2019
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