| GARRY KILWORTH - we are pleased to announce that Rogue Officer won the first Charles Whiting Award for Literature on Sunday the 20th April at The Stratford International Festival of Literature. |
PETER TONKIN - will be talking at Oxted Library, East Sussex at 7.00 on Thursday 22 May.This will be a general talk about writing and his experiences of it, supported with some readings from his own books and others that have influenced him. This will be followed by a Q&A session.
|
KEIR GRAFF (author of My Fellow Americans and recently published One Nation, Under God) has been invited to partake in a discussion chaired by Brad Hooper on post-9/11 fiction at the American Library Association Conference in Anaheim, USA, in June 2008. Keir will be joining an illustrious panel of invited authors, amongst them Janette Turner Hospital, Ellen Gilchrist and Carolyn See.
Please follow this link for a short story, penned by Keir in the May 1 Booklist about the hard-boiled business of book reviewing; Reading is My Business. |
SIMON CLARK has launched a 'making-of' blog for his latest novel The Midnight Man, which features Vincent Van Gogh during the most turbulent year of his life. It can be viewed here http://midnightmannovel.blogspot.com/ The blog contains interesting background information on the novel and serves as a gateway to films about the artist plus a virtual tour of The Yellow House in Arles.
|
| DIANE FANNING - follow this link for a press release announcing a new mystery website; Women In Crime Inc, which Severn house author, Diane Fanning (The Trophy Exchange), helped to create. |
PAULINE ROWSON - upcoming events.
May 30, 2008 - A day on the ocean wave! Pauline Rowson will be on the Wightlink Ferry, St Claire, sailing from Portsmouth to Fishbourne, Isle of Wight - all day! Organised by The Hayling Island Book Shop, Pauline will be signing copies of her marine mysteries and launching the latest one in paperback, Deadly Waters. (Hope the title has no reflection on the day!) Enquiries for sailing times and tickets http://www.wightlink.co.uk Foot passengers are welcome to just turn up on the day.
June 4, 2008 - Lymington Library, Hampshire from 2.30pm to 4pm talking about her marine mystery crime and thriller novels. For further information contact: ann.davidson@hants.gov.uk Lymington Library, North Close, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BW
July 2, 2008 - Hythe Library, Hampshire from 2.30pm to 4pm talking about her marine mystery crime and thriller novels and her latest book The Suffocating Sea. For further information contact: ann.davidson@hants.gov.uk Hythe Library, Pylewell Road, Hythe, Southampton, Hants. SO45 6AQ.
27 September - Havant Arts Centre - 10.30am - 12.00 talking about her marine mystery crime and thriller novels at the Havant Literary Festival. Tickets £5.00. The Havant Literary Festival runs from 25-28 September. |
LINDA SOLE - Popular historical fiction and mystery writer Linda Sole's Regency saga 'A Shameful Secret' (written under the pseudonym Anne Ireland) has entered the ebook chart at number two on the Fictionwise historical bestseller list. Follow this link for the full chart.
Her most recent title from Severn House is A Different Kind of Justice, published this month. |
| MARCIA TALLEY will be attending the St Hilda's Crime & Mystery Conference, Oxford, 15-17 August.Follow this link for information on more book signings and author events. |
| KEITH McCARTHY - Follow this link for a review article that appeared in the British Medical Journal, Time Off section. |
ANNA JACOBS - Follow this link for an interview with Anna Jacobs, which currently appears on Singles.com. |
