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…

Fancy taking a Spring getaway amid the stunning scenery of South West Scotland and combining it with a chance to hear from best-selling crime writers including Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman, who write together as Ambrose Parry, Aline Templeton, pictured here, Sara Sheridan, and myself, plus the opportunity to find out more about emerging…

The latest in the DCI John Blizzard series of crime novels by John Dean has been published.

The Meek Shall Inherit (published by The Book Folks) is the author’s 25th crime novel to be published and is available in ebook format with paperback and hardback to follow shortly, from Amazon.

In the novel, when an elderly couple walk into…

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…