All Blog Posts Tagged 'First' (9)

Review - The First Shot, Patricia Kristensen

Book Title: THE FIRST SHOT

Author: Patricia Kristensen

Author's Home Country: Australia

ISBN: 9781618971630

Year of Publication: 2012

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Synopsis

Murder, cannibalism, kidnapping and breach of copyright hit the sleepy state of Tasmania. To make ends meet, law student Jennifer Shot rents rooms to Nathan, Rod and Cindy, two oversexed fellow law students, and a police officer with personal issues.…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on April 24, 2013 at 11:05pm — No Comments

Review - Crime Factory: The First Shift, ed Keith Rawson-Jones

Book Title: THE FIRST SHIFT

ISBN: 9780987278906

Location: various…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 18, 2012 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Review - Scarlet Stiletto - The First Cut (edited by Lindy Cameron for Sisters in Crime Australia)

Book Title: SCARLET STILETTO - THE FIRST CUT

Edited by: Lindy Cameron

ISBN: 9780987160362

Publisher: Clan Destine Press

Year of Publication: 2011

Scarlet Stiletto The First Cut presents a superb collection of spine-chilling crime fiction stories culled from the annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.

You’ll find the whole gamut from murder and mayhem to police procedurals and crime in verse. Some will have your blood…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on December 13, 2011 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Pick Your Poison - Writing from a First or Third-Person POV

I've read a lot of different POV's on first or third-person and just like everything else, everyone seems to have an opinion on the subject (shocking as that is). Luckily, there are few options to choose, so that's my glass half full approach for the day ;)

More often than not, I have read that a murder mystery should be written from the first-person POV and that most of them are. How interesting then that a lot of the recent books I picked up and dusted off recently were written in… Continue

Added by Cheryl Bradshaw on March 29, 2011 at 6:14am — No Comments

Book Launch & Good Disasters

Tuesday is the book launch party for HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER. I have received word that the books I ordered for said launch will arrive on Wednesday.

It's the sort of problem one can't complain about. The reason for the delay in shipping is that the first printing of HHFM sold out shortly after the release date, January 20th. The publisher is working on catching up, but ... I'll be having a party without hundreds of little guests of honor.

Am I disappointed? Certainly. Will…

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Added by Peg Herring on February 8, 2010 at 9:57pm — No Comments

First Thrills anthology announced

The International Thriller Writers officially announced the First Thrills anthology today. Edited by Lee Child and featuring stories from the bestsellers of today and tomorrow, it will be published by Tor/Forge in June 2010.

Two reasons why I'm excited about this: First, it features a fun wee crime caper I wrote entitled UnderBelly; and second, it will be published around the same time my debut… Continue

Added by Grant McKenzie on December 11, 2009 at 2:56am — No Comments

WAHHHHH-HOO!

If an author needed motivation to rev up work on the second book in a series, great reviews might do it. I'm thrilled with the reviews of HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER in PW and LJ this week, and I'm fired up to finish the sequel, which had gotten to that "Muddle in the Middle" stage where it seems like nothing is going to work, ever. Honestly, I've done this often enough to know that I just have to keep going, but nothing boosts a person's motivation like positive feedback.

So as soon… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on November 3, 2009 at 9:23pm — 2 Comments

Coming Event -- You are all invited!

I've been asked to guest-host an hour of #LitChat, the popular and fun writers' chat group that runs from 4-5:00 Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Twitter.

I'll be there on Friday, November 6 at 4:00 EST. It would be a real thrill to see some of my CrimeSpace friends there to offer support (or even good-natured razzing!)

The topic that week will be the process of self-publishing -- the hurdles and… Continue

Added by Donna Carrick on October 27, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

Research-- A labour of love, or just one more diversion?

Some people share a popular misconception that fictional stories appear fully formed in the mind, waiting to be dropped casually onto a page, as if the writer is nothing more than an automaton, a vehicle through which fiction can flow.

There are, in fact, many aspects to creating any written work. Take for example the art of research. I’m often asked how much research I do and what resources I use. Depending on the type of story being told, at some… Continue

Added by Donna Carrick on October 13, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments