John Dean's Blog – April 2018 Archive (10)

To Honour the Dead is published

Are the defacing of a town’s war memorial and the death of a WWII veteran connected? DCI Jack Harris investigates.

The small town of Levton Bridge is beset by a spate of vandalism against its war memorials. Uniformed police believe it is just kids, but DCI Jack Harris is not so sure. And when a local WWII veteran is found brutally murdered, his suspicions are…

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Added by John Dean on April 25, 2018 at 8:00 — No Comments

Crime titles to watch out for

The Week has named its crime fiction books to look out for in 2018  Check them out at…

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Added by John Dean on April 24, 2018 at 14:36 — No Comments

A festival for crime fiction and non-fiction fans

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Added by John Dean on April 19, 2018 at 11:00 — No Comments

Crime fiction prize longlist is published

Big hitters including Lee Child, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid feature on the longlist for the most prestigious crime writing prize in the country.

The prize was created to celebrate the very best in crime fiction and is open to UK and Irish crime authors whose novels were published in paperback from 1 May 2017 to 30 April 2018.

2018 marks the 14th year of the …

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Added by John Dean on April 16, 2018 at 15:00 — No Comments

Author to give talk in Wigtown

Best-selling crime writer John Dean is to give a talk to the Mystery Readers’ Group at Wigtown Library in Dumfries and Galloway on Monday 28th…

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Added by John Dean on April 16, 2018 at 12:15 — No Comments

How to create strong characters

You can create the finest landscapes, the greatest stories, the most remarkable writing but you can not make your stories live unless you have characters. They are your vehicle to tell the story.

Characters have jobs to do within the story, making things…

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Added by John Dean on April 16, 2018 at 10:52 — No Comments

Crime fiction sales hit the top of the chart

Crime novels and psychological thrillers are outselling other types of fiction for the first time, after television dramas boosted interest in the genre.

In 2017, 18.7 million crime and thriller books were sold, up 19 per cent since 2015. General and…

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Added by John Dean on April 11, 2018 at 11:00 — No Comments

Anthology is published

I can heartily recommend the latest Crime Writer’s Association (CWA) anthology. The CWA anthologies are collections of short stories by members of the association and celebrate the best of crime writing by…

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Added by John Dean on April 6, 2018 at 10:10 — No Comments

Triggering a response from your reader

Continuing my theme of evoking reactions in your reader, I think that good writing is about triggers - words, phrases, images, places, sensations - that reach deep into the reader’…

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Added by John Dean on April 6, 2018 at 10:01 — No Comments

Keeping it real

This is an article I have just had published in Red Herrings, the magazine of the Crime Writers’ Association, of which I am a member, which I thought might interest…

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Added by John Dean on April 3, 2018 at 15:44 — No Comments

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Author Ian Robinson has a new crime novel out - and it’s attracting plenty of glowing reviews. Criminal Justice (The Book Folks) introduces undercover police officer Sam Batford, a man who walks the narrow line between successful detective and corrupt cop. The novel sees him sent to work with a serious crime team in London in an investigation which sees him play the good…See More
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Authors highlight different ways of starting to write a book

I have just started writing my next crime novel and I have more time to concentrate on it now that Kirkcudbright Book Week, which I help organise, has come to an end for this year.In fact, the subject of how best to begin a story cropped up during Book Week, not least when I chaired an in-conversation event at the Selkirk Arms, featuring crime writers Traude Ailinger,…See More
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 I am working on a new DCI John Bizzard crime novel for my publisher The Book Folks, and that means being faced with the dreaded blank first page.So, how do writers get going under such circumstances? How do they start writing their story? Well, in this hectic world, I have always felt that there is a lot to be said for holding back and allowing myself a little time to…See More
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