Launch of MW Craven’s Fifth Washington Poe novel
Gold Dagger-winner M W Craven is launching The Botanist, the fifth Washington Poe novel, at the Old Fire Station, Carlisle on 1 June 2022. Starts at 7pm, bar opens at 6.30. Pop-up bookshop. Free entry, not-free bar. ‘Rattling along at breakn...
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival
East Anglia’s largest annual celebration of crime writing returns to Norwich on 12 – 15 September 2019. Join us in Norwich UNESCO City of Literature for a four-day spectacular of author readings, panel discussions on hot topics, exhibitions, boo...
The CWA sends its sincere condolences to the staff of Charlie Hebdo
The CWA sends its sincere condolences to the staff of Charlie Hebdo. Your loss is our loss. Your fight is our fight. “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” Salman Rushdie ...
Sam Blake – Murder ONE
Sam Blake is the founder of the Murder ONE International Crime Writing Festival – Ireland’s first designated crime festival, taking place in Dublin, a UNESCO City of Literature, in November 2018. For a first festival the line-up of crime writers...
Crime Publishers & Writers at Event in Chorley, Lancashire
Publishers Sapere Books and Gritstone Publishing Co-operative as well as crime writers Simon Michael, D J Harrison and Ruth Sutton will be highlighting the different ways of getting published. Writers, whether beginners or more experienced, are wel...
Tell us about a new book
Tell us about a new book Fill out this form to tell us about your upcoming book, for inclusion in Red Herrings’ Hot Off the Press feature and our social media ‘Publication Day’ posts. Submit your book at least one week before its publicat...
Dagger in the Library nomination form
Dagger in the Library nomination form Libraries are invited to use the form below to submit nominations from themselves and their borrowers for the 2025 Dagger in the Library award. Nominations are open from October 1st - December 9th 2024. You m...
Request an additional profile
Request an additional profile Most authors who write under one or more additional pseudonyms choose to list all books under their main profile, explaining the pseudonym/s in their author biography. If instead you wish to have another, separate profi...
CWA Announces new Debut Dagger Sponsor
The Crime Writers’ Association has announced a new sponsor for its annual international writing competition for unpublished writers. The CWA Debut Dagger is to be sponsored by ProWritingAid, a platform that operates as a grammar checker, style edi...
Private: How To Increase Book Sales: 16 Ways
by Brian Feinblum of Media Connect If you want to know how to go about getting a lot of book sales, all that you need to do is write a really good book, that’s better than others in your genre, on a topic that’s not over done or obscure,...
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