August 2011 Blog Posts (2)

In praise of Karin Slaughter

As you know, I and many other crime writers do what we can to help libraries at a time when they are seen by many as a soft target as budget cuts bite. So I was delighted to hear that best-selling crime author Karin Slaughter is to write a short story to benefit libraries. The project will be a digital original short story titled "Thorn in My Side" from Amazon Publishing's Thomas & Mercer imprint, available exclusively as a Kindle Single on August 25th. One hundred percent of Slaughter's…

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Summer Fling programme announced

Just announced the Summer Fling programme (Aug 30-Sep 3). Far too much going on to list it all here (music, dancing, readings, art fair etc etc) but you can find it at www.darlingtonforculture.org (click on the right hand box on the home page, which says wpshower, and all will be revealed)

Added by John Dean on August 2, 2011 at 15:16 — No Comments

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