Bloody Scotland crime festival is held every year in the historical and beautiful town of Stirling in Scotland. This year it runs from 11th – 13th September and has a wonderful line-up of crime writers. Full events listing can be found HERE. I am incredibly lucky to have been able to interview one of the […]
Rosie Claverton on How Mental Health Is Depicted In Crime Fiction
I had the great pleasure of talking to Rosie Claverton yesterday about the issues surrounding mental health and its depiction in fiction, particularly crime fiction. Rosie works in psychiatry as well as writing her own crime series, The Amy Lane Mysteries. This was a Skype chat but the recording software froze as we talked because […]
Quentin Bates on Icelandic Crime Fiction – (Video)
Welcome to another in the bite-sized interviews. Today I have the pleasure of introducing Quentin Bates, a UK based author who has lived more than a decade in Iceland and has written several crime novels based in present-day Iceland. He has also translated Ragnar Jónasson’s, Snowblind. Because we talk about Icelandic crime fiction for the […]
SJI Holliday – Debut Cover Reveal And Questions
Black Wood is the debut thriller by SJI Holliday and will be released next year. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Susi for some time on Twitter and have also met her on a couple of occasions, so I am absolutely thrilled to be able to show you her first ever cover. I was also […]
How Does Psychology Support Crime Fiction? – Emma Kavanagh
Today I’m thrilled to be the first stop on Emma Kavanagh’s blog tour for the release of the paperback of her rather fabulous crime book Falling. It is published by Arrow at £6.99 For the tour I asked her what she thought her background in psychology brought to writing Falling. This was what she said. […]
Fourth Week Round Up of the A to Z Challenge
So, this week didn’t go entirely as planned. But that’s life. Or my life anyway. I have a lot on my plate and my brain just decided to take a short holiday. This resulted in two missing days from the A to Z challenge. Here are the posts that did make it into the past […]