Meet crime authors at Shrewsbury Waterstone’s
Meet crime authors from across the country at Shrewsbury Waterstone’s on Sunday 15th April from 2pm to 3.30pm. The branch is expanding its Crime Section, ...
Tag: writing
From The Bridge to Hinterland at the Birmingham Literature Festival
A perfect chaser for the talk by Walter Iuozzolino, he of Walter Presents, had to be the talk given by crime drama writer-creators Hans Rosenfeldt, of Swedish/D...
Historian? Author? Writer?
One day, Rebecca Rideal wrote a history book, intended for the general, non-academic reader. You know the type – the sort of person who is interested in h...
Wherein the author poses in a bookshop
Today, I went to Waterstones in Birmingham and saw Poison Panic on the shelf. It was my book! In a book shop! Not only does my book exist, but… it ...
How to index a book – or not
Apart from the obvious difference between fiction and non-fiction – one’s pretend and the other isn’t (more or less) – a non-fiction tex...
Birmingham RNA Writers Day
Writing can be a lonely endeavour, so it’s great that there’s ways for us to meet up. There’s local groups, or there’s associations and ...
My first blog post
Just last week, I was giving a talk about ‘Social media for authors’ at Book to the Future – the University of Birmingham’s literature f...