A reminder that crime novelist and creative writing tutor John Dean, who is based in Dumfries and Galloway, has launched an online Crime Fiction Course.

Chamber member John, author of 16 novels and currently published by London-based The Book Folks, and the creator of DCI John Blizzard and DCI Jack Harris, also runs Inscribe Media Ltd, which is based near…

I have been teaching writers for years and one of my best pieces of advice when they are stuck on their plot has always been ‘take the dog for a walk’. It is amazing how many plot tangles are resolved when you are out with the dog with nothing else to think about.

Ironically, I did all this without owning, or ever really liking, dogs, a legacy I think of…

My publisher The Book Folks have a number of new crime fiction titles out for Summer, including Broken Angel by Diane M Dickson.…

A treat for United Kingdom readers from The Book Folks: four murder mysteries based in the British Isles. Just £1 each this July on Kindle. Stock up for your summer reading now! Totally FREE with Kindle…

To Die Alone, one of my DCI Jack Harris mysteries, has broken into the Top 100 in the British Detectives category on Amazon Kindle.

Book description: Murder, animal cruelty, and vigilante justice drag DCI Jack Harris out of his quiet rural idyll.

The hunt for a missing man turns up a body deep in a forest in northern England, but it is…

I can heartily recommend the Crime Readers’ Association (CRA) to any fan of crime fiction, Emerging from the UK Crime Writers’ Association, of which I am a member, the CRA was set up to give…

Further to my recent post on reviews, The Railway Man received one on Amazon recently, which said: “The author continues to come up with great storylines and continues to develop the main characters further so it’s like you nearly seem to…

Reviews are part of a writer’s life and most reviewers are positive; even if they do not like the book (I am fortunate in that the vast majority of Amazon reviewers do like my work) they try to be constructive and explain why. I respect that and my view is that if the reviewer makes a valid point a writer…

British readers have become more gripped by crime and thriller novels, with sales up by 19% between 2015 and 2017, recently-published figures suggest.…

Check out Nicholas Camm’s brilliant performance on the audio book of the DCI Harris mystery The Vixen’s Scream, one of four of my books available in audio, all read by Nicholas.

A series of blood-curdling screams is heard in the dead of the Cumbrian night. When the body of a young woman is found, rumours quickly spread that a serial killer is at work in the…

I also write under the name John Stanley, with two novels having been published by the Book Folks, featuring DCI Danny Radford, who investigates crime in a decaying northern city riddled by corruption.

You can check…

Check out Nicholas Camm’s brilliant performance on the audio book of the DCI Blizzard mystery The Long Dead, one of four of my books available in audio, all read by Nicholas.…

Five of the Blizzard and Harris crime novels are currently residing in the Top 100…

I am proud to be one of a stable of writers published by the Book Folks of London - you can check them all out, including Anna Willett, whose latest novel is shown here, at http://thebookfolks.com/

Here are my golden rules for witing.

* Consider the reader - do not write for yourself, always write for the reader.

* Be…