I am delivering two master classes and a weekend residential creative writing course as part of the Darlington Arts Festival, which takes place in Darlington, County Durham, UK.

They are:

Saturday May 3 Crime Writing Masterclass,

Crime novelist John Dean presents a day-long workshop at the Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate. Time 10am-4pm

Want to create the perfect villain? Being driven to murder? Then this masterclass from the creator of the John Blizzard and…

Those of you with books in UK libraries will know how important Public Lending Right is to authors because it pays a small amount for each borrowed work.

For the many authors, such as myself, who do not make enough from their writing to go full-time but whose books are popular in libraries, the arrival of the annual PLR payment in February is eagerly awaited.

However, like all areas of life in the UK, the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review has had an effect.  Libraries…

Check me out on the excellent Crime Readers’ Association website at http://www.thecra.co.uk/find-an-author/dean-john/

The next Open Mic night for authors, the first of 2014, is on Thursday January 30.

The nights, supported by Darlington for Culture and which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, run at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, on the last Thursday of the month. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry is £3 paid on the door.

More information is available  from

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Happy to confirm that A Breach of Trust, the latest Blizzard novel, has been accepted for publication by Hale. More info in due course.