All Blog Posts Tagged 'the' (302)

Best of British Crime Fiction

I'm delighted to learn that my marine mystery crime novel featuring the flawed and rugged Inspector Horton, The Suffocating Sea, has been selected as one of ten Best of British Crime Fiction titles by The Book Depository. It's alongside the UK giants of crime fiction: Reginald Hill, Peter… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on February 16, 2009 at 10:55pm — 2 Comments

Sean O'Brien and The Given Day

(Cross posted on One Bite at a Time.)

Sean O’Brien has written a rambling, somewhat disjointed piece for The Times Online titled “Laws of the Thriller: Sean O’Brien on the ups and downs of thriller writers.” (Thanks to Sarah Weinman’s terrific blog, Confessions of an… Continue

Added by Dana King on February 13, 2009 at 5:44am — 7 Comments

Win a copy of Valley of the Lost

I am having a contest to celebrate the launch of Valley of the Lost, the second in the Constable Molly Smith mystery series.

To enter the contest and have a change to win a signed hardcover of Valley of the Lost, either view the trailer or read the first chapter, or both.

The trailer is on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJ4m391LZQ and on my web page.

You can either… Continue

Added by Vicki Delany on February 7, 2009 at 8:01am — No Comments

I'm a guest author at Crimefest UK

It's just been confirmed that I am a guest author on one of the panels at the international crime convention, CRIMEFEST at the Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel on 15 May.

CrimeFest is a convention for people who like to read an occasional crime novel as well as for die-hard fanatics. Following the hugely successful one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American convention… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on February 7, 2009 at 3:21am — No Comments

Future of the Printed Word

For hundreds of years people have documented their existence, passing on messages, history, and ideas through print form. Now the crumbling economy is threatening to make printed news a thing of the past...

Just recently the New York Times announced that they are facing dire circumstances and "that it is possible that The Times and other newspapers will have to move to digital-only distribution."(read… Continue

Added by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore on January 31, 2009 at 5:13am — 4 Comments

The New Inspector Horton Marine Mystery Crime Novel

Here it is, the jacket cover for the NEW Inspector Horton Marine Mystery - Dead Man's Wharf- the fourth in the series. It will be published on 30 April 2009. It looks pretty sinister to me and I hope you like it. Let me know what you think.

Below is a preview of what's to come in Dead Man's Wharf. I'll be posting an extract from the book on my web site in due course. For now you can read extracts of Tide of Death and Deadly Waters, featuring… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on January 17, 2009 at 4:16am — No Comments

Finally Some Positive News

I found this article on The New York Times Fiction Reading Increases for Adults

After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed.

The report, “Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy,” being released… Continue

Added by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore on January 14, 2009 at 4:25am — No Comments

Don't Miss the Sizzling Debut

Well, Barbara has once again picked a winner in Beat the Reaper: a debut by Josh Bazell

Not only is this First Mystery Club Pick getting rave reviews:

"I didn't want to like it. I mean, a doctor writing a novel is kind of obnoxious. What, you don't have enough to do already? But maybe that's me. Anyway, I didn't want to like BEAT THE REAPER, but I did; I loved it. It is completely original, an utter page-turner, bold,… Continue

Added by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore on January 10, 2009 at 5:21am — No Comments

Doom and Gloom in the Book World

When Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co announced a freeze on the purchase of most new manuscripts (story here) and Harper Collins and Pearson, parent company of Penguin Group (USA), announced they were freezing wages and considering layoffs (story here), we knew times were tough.

The bad economy… Continue

Added by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore on January 9, 2009 at 2:00am — 3 Comments

Free First Chapter of The Dead Guy

I forgot to mention that anyone can go to HewittsBooks and open a FREE PDF file with the first chapter of The Dead Guy.

Why not give it a quick read? It's a short chapter, and if it doesn't hook you, fine. But you might find that you need to read on ...

Thanks!

Doug…

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Added by Doug Hewitt on January 6, 2009 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Networking for writers and book signings

I am a believer in writers networking. We are solitary people, sitting often for hours, if not days and weeks, alone with our thoughts, sometimes a blank screen, and an idea. We play God to a world we create and bleed to bring our creation to life. Could God be as lonely as a writer trying to pound out that one true sentence?

I have been a member of Mystery Writers of America (www.mysterywriters.org) since the ‘80s. For the past 12 years, I have belonged to the Florida chapter of MWA and… Continue

Added by Michael Haskins on November 25, 2008 at 6:12am — No Comments

Stephen King, Dan Brown as Howard Hughes, and missed opportunities...

Not too long ago I was watching a primetime television show, as I am wont to do. And lo and behold, there was a commercial for the next Stephen King novel. It contained all of the bells and whistles of a movie trailer, and made those book trailers put together by authors on their own dime (mine, for instance) look woefully inadequate in comparison.

Which got me thinking: what an enormous wasted opportunity...read the rest… Continue

Added by Michelle Gagnon on November 20, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

An unusual book signing location- Colonial Bank, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

I just finished three book signings in less than four weeks and I learned a lot about the buying public, readers, and how the current economic crisis is affecting book sales.

But first, let me tell you about meeting Patti Stegal, (see photo) the daughter of my friend Sue Harrison. Patti was in town from Illinois, where she’s a teacher. Sue bought her a copy of “Chasin’ the Wind” when it first came out, as a gift and after… Continue

Added by Michael Haskins on November 19, 2008 at 5:57am — No Comments

Latest book news and forthcoming marine mysteries

I’ve just received from my publisher my copies of the Large Print version of Deadly Waters, which is now on sale. It looks really good and I hope it enables people who are visually impaired (sadly a growing number) to enjoy this marine mystery crime novel.

Deadly Waters is already available as a talking book and in hardback and trade paperback and will shortly be published as a mass market paperback in the UK with a new jacket cover in April… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on November 11, 2008 at 3:23am — No Comments

Married to a psychopath!!!

The honeymoon was over -- and so was her life ..or at least that's the way her nut-case husband wanted it.. this is the amazing true story of Barbara Bentley who survived her husband's attempt to kill her only to fight California's divorce laws in a battle as intense as the one for her life. Don Woldman, famed family law attorney, and co-host of TRUE CRIMES will have a great time with this one!…

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Added by Burl Barer on November 10, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Murder at the Pelican Club - A Brand New Murder Mystery Play

In August I was commissioned to write a murder mystery play. More used to penning crime novels this is my first serious play and I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. It began with an e mail in August asking writers for submissions for a new murder mystery play to be performed by professional actors and actresses in the autumn. Deadlines were extremely tight. I needed to know more.

What kind of play were they looking for? Was it to be a serious play… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on October 19, 2008 at 2:17am — No Comments

In For The Kill Now In Polish!

I have just received copies of the Polish translation of my thriller In For The Kill. (The Polish version is on the left, and the English one on the right in case you have any doubts!) It's always exciting to see your work in another language.

Red Horse Publishers based in Poland bought the translation rights to three of my crime and thriller novels earlier this year and… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on September 16, 2008 at 3:07am — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #5: HEMINGWAY & HOMICIDE

You can make a good case for Ernest Hemingway having left a profound mark on hardboiled crime fiction.

Graduate students and crime fiction aficionados have murdered trees arguing whether Hemingway influenced Dashiell Hammett or whether inspiration ran the other direction.

Raymond Chandler incorporated Hemingway in his fiction, wrote an astonishingly inept parody of Hemingway prose and staunchly defended Hem’s much-pilloried novel Across the River and Into the… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on September 14, 2008 at 11:17pm — No Comments

A Study in Red - A Chance to win a Copy

The cover design of 'A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper' has been nominated for 'Erin Aisliin's Book Cover of the Month', for Juiy 2008. One voter will win a copy of the winning nomination. In order to win a copy of the e-book version of 'A Study in Red' it is of course necessary that the book is the winner as the winning voter receives a copy of the winning book. Please support my nomination by going to… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on August 4, 2008 at 7:54pm — No Comments

A Study in Red - Another Nomination - Win a Copy of the book!

A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper has been named as Book Cover of the Week on the website of Erin Aislinn

http://www.erinaislinn.com/index.html

The book will now be included in the poll for Erin Aislinn's Book cover of the month for July and the voting will open very soon. Anyone who places a vote for the book will be included in a free draw with one lucky person winning a copy of the e-book edition of the book. I will of course post the link… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on July 28, 2008 at 3:58am — No Comments