Emerging Author Dagger Checklist
Have you followed the rules? This is the easy bit, so don’t risk disqualification by exceeding the word limit (don’t do this, not by even a few words) or forget to take your name off the manuscript. Word count for the entry form is that o...
Emerging Author Dagger Writing Tips
Here are tips from recent newsletters compiled for you by Dea Parkin, the CWA’s Competitions Coordinator (and professional editor). If you’re at the stage where your entry is finished and you’re into the all-important revision and editing pr...
How to fix an author blog with no traffic by C T Mitchell
How To Fix An Author Blog With No Traffic Greg Reed aka C T Mitchell So you’ve started your new author blog (well done!) but there’s deadly silence. No interaction, no post likes and you’re wondering if anybody else is reading your master...
You’re nicked! At-a-glance notes on police rank structure and terminology for UK crime writers, by editor Lesley Jones
Do you know your FBI from your NCA? Your ADW from your GBH? Your MP from your misper? Your DA from your CPS? This post is not in any way intended to discriminate against authors who want to write about crimes in any other country. I am confining m...
Debut Dagger Writing Tips
Here are tips from recent newsletters compiled for you by Dea Parkin, the CWA’s Competitions Coordinator (and professional editor). If you’re at the stage where your entry is finished and you’re into the all-important revision and editing pr...
Promote Yourself
Promote Yourself Members can take advantage of our wide range of platforms to promote your books. Here are some of the ways you can make best use of your benefits to promote yourself. New Book Announcement If you have a new book coming out, please...
Emerging Author Dagger
Emerging Author Dagger The Crime Writers’ Association Emerging Author Dagger, formerly the Debut Dagger, is an international competition for unpublished writers working in English. Sponsored by Fiction Feedback Editorial Consultancy, it invites th...
Blending Fact & Fiction – panel discussion on historical crime fiction
CWA LONDON IS THRILLED TO HOST: BLENDING FACT & FICTION with Dr Emma Darwin, Alex Reeve, Luke Deckard, James Benmore and Bonnie MacBird. (NB this online event is hosted by the CWA London Chapter but open to all CWA members and members of the pub...
CWA Presents: Walking Through a Crime Scene
Part 1 – 'Securing the Scene' with Graham Bartlett and Kate Bendelow Learn with the Crime Experts 22 April 7.30pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/SecureTheScene The CWA minds behind February's Blending Fact and Fiction have put together a thrilling three-...
The CWA Presents: Walking Through a Crime Scene Part 2
Part 2 – 'Murder Under the Microscope' with Dr Jim Fraser Learn with the Crime Experts 20 May 7.30pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/MurderUnderMicroscope The minds behind February's Blending Fact and Fiction have put together a thrilling three-p...

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