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...
Featured Post: Fiction Feedback
We are delighted to have been sponsored by Fiction Feedback this month. Fiction Feedback provide an independent, affordable, critique service for writers – giving honest, helpful and professiona...
What’s the story – Sally Spedding
There has to be enough of one whose selling ‘blurb’ and ‘shout line’ will persuade the casual browser that they are about to enter another world real enough to make them forget their own moorings. Thi...
Featured Author Friday – Sally Spedding
Last week we had a great post from our Featured Author, Sally Spedding, but I know you want to know a little bit more about her….. My crime chillers explore the darkest sides of people and place...
Settings to Die For – Sally Spedding
It has always been a particular setting which has fired the engine of my beginning either a new crime chiller or short story. A setting that hits my heart. Some have been discovered quite by accident,...
Catherine Aird – Diamond Dagger 2015
Earlier today the CWA made much anticipated announcement of the winner of the 2015 Diamond Dagger. We caught up with Catherine Aird to find out what winning the Diamond Dagger meant to her. How do you...
Heroes and villains – David Beckler
As with most genres, the most important character in crime fiction is the hero. This is usually a detective – amateur or professional – who solves the crimes. Writers intending to write a series must...
Rules for Writers – David Beckler
When I began writing a few years ago, I hadn’t a clue about the craft of writing and didn’t even know if I could sustain a narrative for the required 80-100k words. For thirty odd years the only writi...
Immortal Madonna by Yvonne Crowe
Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. The Immortal Madonna – Yvonne Crowe Free Kindle Edition today (20.01.2015) What’s it all a...
Rules for Detective Stories – David Beckler
Monsignor Ronald Knox came up with 10 rules of detective fiction as a preface to Best Detective Stories of 1928-29: 1) The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must n...
Music while you work?
I recently saw this quote from Paul Auster: “I’ve heard of people who write with music playing. This is unthinkable to me because the music that you’re listening to is the music of the language that y...
Fifty Shades of Nighttime Grey; Walking the Somerset Levels By Nina Milton
Have you ever walked the Somerset Levels at night? I have, purely for research purposes, and it was a scary experience. On the night I took my walk, charcoal clouds were scuttling across the sky. The...
Sherlock Holmes At The Raffles Hotel – John Hall
Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press. Sherlock Holmes At The Raffles Hotel by John Hall – Free ebook today (06.01.2015) What’s it...
The 12 Suspects of Christmas: The Solution
Previously in this periodical, the author put before you a Yuletide conundrum and now begs your indulgence to present her elegant solution… It was the second day of the Year of Our Lord 1896, wh...
The 12 Suspects of Christmas – The Solution
Previously in this periodical, the author put before you a Yuletide conundrum and now begs your indulgence to present her elegant solution… It was the second day of the Year of Our Lord 1896, wh...
The Daily Grind: A.D. Garrett
Writer: A.D. Garrett Workspace: My office overlooks a reservoir. Which sounds idyllic, but isn’t. The reservoir is covered and is just a flat-topped, grassy mound. More romantically, the mound...
The 12 Suspects of Christmas: The Mystery – Rosie Claverton
Christmas, 1895. The Old Manor House had been in the D’Argent family for generations and, as was traditional for the season, they always invited their closest family and friends to dine w...
A toxic family Christmas – Amy Bird, author of Hide and Seek explores the danger of relationships pushed to the edge
Picture the Christmas dinner table. Everyone laughing happily as the champagne bubbles go up their nose, crackers explode, and the Christmas pudding is set alight just in time for you to devour it whi...
Murder Will Out- Alison Joseph
Every other Tuesday we feature a publication from leading independent publisher Endeavour Press Ltd. Murder Will Out – Alison Joseph Free to download 23.12.2014 1923The Great War is over, but th...
Christmas secrets – Amy Bird, author of Hide and Seek, unwraps some sinister gifts
Christmas. A time to be in the bosom of your family. Your nearest and dearest. Whom you know everything about and trust implicitly. Right? But what if everything around you is fake. I don’t mean the t...
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