John Dean's Blog – June 2024 Archive (4)

An inspiring visit

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to a…

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Added by John Dean on June 29, 2024 at 21:00 — No Comments

New characters take a bow

It can be a big decision for an author responsible for a popular and long-running series of novels to strike out in another direction but Irish crime writer David Pearson has done just that.

The Farmyard Mystery introduce us to the new Mayo Murders series which begins when Pat Nevin and his…

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The power of the throwaway phrase

I have written before in my  blogs about the power of dialogue to breathe life into stories and, as I work on my latest DCI Blizzard crime novel, it is doing it again.

Yet the dialogue that is jumping off the page is not all dramatic revelation, it also includes those little phrases that give readers the sense that real people are speaking and…

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Added by John Dean on June 24, 2024 at 14:00 — No Comments

National Crime Reading Month sees writer visit Peterborough school

Best-selling crime writer John Dean will help mark National Crime Reading Month (NCRM) with a visit to Jack Hunt School in Peterborough on Wednesday 26th June.

The former crime journalist, turned crime author, will visit the secondary school, part of the Peterborough Keys…

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Added by John Dean on June 8, 2024 at 7:00 — No Comments

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A welcome addition to the crime fiction canon

Book Review - Murder in the New Forest by Carol Cole (The Book Folks).It’s always a moment laden with anticipation when a new crime series emerges onto the scene and Carol Cole does not disappoint with Murder in the New Forest (The Book Folks).At the heart of the novel is a new central character, DI Callum MacLean, newly arrived in Hampshire from Glasgow and plunged into…See More
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Bestseller chart success

I am delighted that two of my crime fiction works are this morning in the top 100 Organised Crime Kindle charts on Amazon.The DCI John Blizzard box set containing the first seven novels in the series, (The Book Folks) for just 99p - now if that is not an outstanding offer, I do not know what is -  is at number 43 (it is already topping various anthology charts).My new…See More
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Grant award helps develop crime fiction programme

Organisers of the fourth annual Kirkcudbright Book Week have been awarded a £1,750 grant from the Robin Rigg Community Fund to help them develop the crime fiction component of the festival.Kirkcudbright Book Week is designed to celebrate the growing literary scene in and around the South West Scotland town and crime fiction has proved to be a popular genre with audiences…See More
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The way authors work

A few years ago, I ran a creative writing course and, at the beginning of one of the sessions, I asked my fifteen students how they worked.The result was fifteen different answers –one author wrote everything by hand then typed it onto their computer, another wrote it all in note form then linked the notes together, one did not edit anything until everything was…See More
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Knowing when to cast all caution to the wind

Writing is an art form which combines two skills which appear, at first glance, to have nothing on common – unrestrained creativity and well-controlled discipline.However, good writing is not possible without either of them. To explain, as I write the latest DCI Jack Harris crime novel, I am being disciplined and following the synopsis that I developed right from the…See More
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