Karen from AustCrime's Blog – April 2008 Archive (2)

Australian Writers - Become a Crime Writer!

Now this is the sort of news that makes the despairing Australian Crime Fiction fan do happy dances in the kitchen first thing in the morning!

Penguin Australia (bless their little cotton socks) have started a competition to find a new Australian voice in the commercial crime and thriller market.

"I've been a London editor for 13 years now, specialising in the crime-thrillers genre, and it really is saturated with US and UK authors," says Beverley Cousins, editorial… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on April 19, 2008 at 12:19pm — No Comments

Favourite Aust/NZ Books - Non-Scientific Poll

Just for a bit of fun (and to avoid doing what I should have been doing yesterday), we've set up a little poll on AustCrime that lets you tick the local Australian and New Zealand books that you've enjoyed reading recently. If you haven't read any of them - use it as a suggestion list instead :)

You can also add your own choices if there's been a favourite book you liked that we didn't include:…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on April 13, 2008 at 11:17am — 1 Comment