Marketing your Books
The CWA’s mission is to promote the crime-writing genre, both fiction and non-fiction, and support our membership of professional authors. We offer our members a wide range of promotional outlets, and the help of our Bookseller and Library Champions.
CWA Readers News
Every month more than 12,000 email subscribers, including all members of the Criminal Contenders mailing list, receive CWA Readers News. This free newsletter features articles written exclusively by CWA members about their work, careers, and the writing life, as well as event news, special offers, competitions and more. Submit articles of 400-450 words to comms@thecwa.co.uk, along with an author photo and photo of your latest book. And feel free to subscribe to the newsletter yourself right here.
Case Files
CWA Readers News and Criminal Contenders subscribers also receive the bi-monthly Case Files, highlighting new book releases by CWA members alongside regular features such as The Daily Grind, in which a featured author gives a whistle-stop tour of their desk, and The Low Down, interviewing one of the showcased authors.
The Crime Readers section
The CWA website has a dedicated Crime Readers section for authors to be seen by readers. We showcase a Featured Author and Read of the Month, link to members’ event listings, and even publish original short stories by our members. The section also holds archives of our newsletters, CWA Readers News and Case Files.
Find an Author/Find a Book
A fabulous resource for our authors where they can feature their bio, tell readers about their books and provide details of their websites, blogs and social media platforms as well as links to each of their books. Every book entry is also given a link enabling readers to buy it quickly. This section is searchable by author name, title, sub-genre, historical period and Dagger winners, and is divided into fiction, non-fiction, true crime, short story and anthology categories.
Event Listings
We regularly list and promote events featuring our members on the CWA website, in our newsletters, and on social media (Two public Facebook pages, X, Instagram, BlueSky, and Threads).
Members can access a simple form so that their own public events can be uploaded to the CWA website.
National Crime Reading Month
Every year in June the CWA organises National Crime Reading Month, a celebration of the genre, uniting events all over the UK and Ireland to spread awareness of crime reading, our members, and their books.
Social media
Find us on Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, and YouTube! Thousands of people follow us for news and announcements, including the latest books by our members, the CWA Daggers, writing competitions, events, festivals, insightful author videos and more.
- @crimewritersassoc on Instagram and Threads
- Thecwa.bsky.social on BlueSky
- The CWA on X (Twitter)
- The CWA on Facebook
- Crime Readers’ Book Chat, our Facebook group for readers and authors
- The CWA on YouTube

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