Martin Edwards – A New Life for Take My Breath Away
Take My Breath Away is a novel of psychological suspense that means a great deal to me, and I’m delighted that at long last, it’s beginning a new life as an ebook, published by Allison...
Quentin Bates – Books
The curse of the TBR pile It’s an affliction, but not necessarily a bad one. There are others that are so much worse. They’re everywhere, sneaking into corners and taking up residence, lying qu...
Quentin Bates – Ideas?
There are questions a writer will groan inwardly at hearing, while hopefully maintaining an outward smile, however glassy. Do you make any money from these books, then? That’s a good one. Then there a...
Quentin Bates – Sex
I thought that might grab your attention. What’s there to say about sex? To start with, I’m given to understand there’s a lot of it about. We humans (men, anyway) are supposedly hardwired to think abo...
Quentin Bates – Living With A Stranger
It’s almost like being married all over again. Let me clarify… I’ve been married for a long time, and only the once. But a few years ago another woman turned up and has been living with me ever since....
Preparing Submissions by Leigh Russell
Recently there has been a lot of controversy in the publishing industry. Should we read physical books or e-books? Is traditional publishing better than self-publishing? Contrary to what a lot of writ...
The Appeal of Crime Fiction by Leigh Russell
On the face of it, the appeal of crime fiction is a strange phenomenon. Readers who appear to be perfectly ordinary, if not downright pleasant, often tell me they ‘love a good murder’. Boo...
Writing Series by Leigh Russell
In the second of her blog posts as CRA Featured Author for May Leigh Russell looks at Writing Series. As readers, many of us are fans of series. There is comfort in returning to a familiar character....
How I Started Writing by Leigh Russell
I started writing relatively late in life, and it has literally changed my life. I’m not talking about the outward trappings of being a bestselling author: earning my living from writing fictio...
Undercover agent – are writers the new spies? by Amy Bird
We’ve heard about spies and undercover police officers forming relationships and living whole false lives in order to infiltrate, or research, particular groups. What about a writer becoming friends w...
Criminal London – why the capital still thrills us
London may no longer be a place of opium dens, vile alleys and gin holes, as it was in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s day, but it is still an attractive proposition for a crime writer. From Robert Wil...
The stalker – why our obsessive fascination with the obsessed? Amy Bird
Tell someone you have written a book about a stalker, and there’s an ‘ooh’ moment – a leaning in, a sense of intrigue. So what is it that continues to fascinate crime writers and readers about stalker...
Must crime writers experience their crimes to write convincingly? Amy Bird
Our Featured Author for April is Amy Bird and this is the first of four posts she will be writing for the CRA. Read more about Amy in her CRA author profile How far should you go in the name of resear...
The Scourge of Self-Doubt A.J Waines
In my work as a Psychotherapist, many creative people have come to me with self-doubt about their chosen craft. They tell me that they have stopped producing, because what they are going to create mig...
A J Waines – The Importance of Settings
In the third of her Featured Author posts A.J. Waines looks at the importance of settings. One of the major appeals for UK readers of Nordic Noir and Scandi Crime novels has to be the settings. In S...
The Importance of Book Titles – A. J. Waines
In the second of her Featured Author posts A.J. Waines looks at the importance of book titles. The title of a book is undoubtedly the first thing we see about it, backed up by the image on the...
Getting Past Writers Block – A J Waines
As a Psychotherapist, I’ve often worked with creative people and come across many writers, artists, actors and composers who’ve got ‘stuck’. They feel paralysed, inert and lost – then as a resul...
CRA Giveaway: Death Lies Beneath (DI Horton Series)
The eighth marine mystery crime novel featuring DI Andy Horton When ex con, Daryl Woodley is found dead on the marshes bordering Langstone Harbour the Intelligence Directorate believe his murder is li...
Developing Characters – Pauline Rowson
Creating a likeable, interesting and complex main character, one the reader can have empathy with, one they want to trust, to feel his/her pain and disappointments, root for throughout the story is a...
Choosing the setting for crime novels – Pauline Rowson
Every known murder scene has a detective combing for clues. Every detective has a prime enemy – and it’s not always the criminal. For the detective, the first enemy is often the crime sc...
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