Women Who Murder: An Evening with Mitzi Szereto (Vancouver, BC)
On 4 May, 2024, True crime author Mitzi Szereto will be at Indigo Langley to meet readers and sign copies of her new book release Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales. She’ll be joined by her special guest, contr...
Private: Authors’ Emergency Fund for Coronavirus Hardship
The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), the Royal Literary Fund, English PEN with the T S Eliot Foundation, and Amazon UK have joined forces with the Society of Authors to support authors affected financially by Coronavirus. Collectiv...
Crafting Compelling Coppers – celebrate National Crime Reading Month with the CWA
Join the Crime Writers' Association as we celebrate National Crime Reading Month on Tuesday 15 June at 7.30pm. Authors Jane Bettany (creator of DI Isabel Blood), Liz Mistry (writer of the DI Gus McGuire and Nikki Parekh series), Roz Watkins (DI Meg ...
A Detective’s Take on Crime Fiction
Join former copper, former detective, and present-day librarian Iain Souter for a fun and informative cop's eye view of crime fiction! Iain Souter is a second-generation police officer from a crop of three, who followed their father into the servi...
An Evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys
An Evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys Join the Royal Society of Biology for an evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys on Monday 16th May 2016 at the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre, London. The inventor of forensic DNA fingerprinting tells his story at this s...
Antony Johnston and David Beckler at Leigh Library
As part of National Crime Reading Month, local author CJ Harter will interview best-selling crime writers Antony Johnston, creator of Atomic Blonde and The Exphoria Code, and David Beckler, author of Brotherhood. After the interview, there w...
Don’t Fear the Editor, or, Are You an Author or Just Someone Who Wants to Write a Book? by Jason Monaghan
So the draft of my work in progress, code name NRT, is back from beta-readers. The lovely things the trio said about the book were great, causing big beams of joy on my writerly face. The criticisms gave pause for thought. No, I’m not sharing – o...
Capital Crime
Capital Crime, London’s first crime and thriller festival, is coming this September to Covent Garden. With over 30 CWA members appearing, such as Peter James, Antonia Hodgson, Ian Rankin, Dreda Say Mitchell, Mark Edwards, Will Dean and MW Craven, t...
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Winning the Debut Dagger by Amer Anwar
If I’d known then what I know now, I may not have entered the Debut Dagger competition when I did – but then things would have gone very differently for me and I might well not be in the position I am today. Looking back, the main thing I mightâ€...
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