Lindy Cameron

, Female

Victoria

Australia

Profile Information:

Hometown:: Melbourne
About Me:: I am a writer of crime fiction, thrillers and true crime.

Fiction author of the espionage thriller Redback;
the O'Malley mystery trilogy - Blood Guilt, Bleeding Hearts and Thicker Than Water;
and the archaeological adventure, Golden Relic.

True Crime co-author (with my sister Fin J Ross) of Killer in the Family; and with (with friend Ruth Wykes) of Women Who Kill.
Contributing editor of the true crime collections Meaner Than Fiction and Outside the Law 2; Editor of Outside the Law 3.

Editor of the crime & mystery short story collection, Scarlet Stiletto the first cut... winner of the 2008 Readers' Vote Davitt Award.

I'm a National Co-Convenor of Sisters in Crime Australia, editor of the SinC-Oz magazine Stiletto; and a member of the International Thriller Writers.

I'm a Xenaphile, a bookaholic, a movie buff. I live on Victoria's beautiful Mornington Peninsula with my partner and a serious menagerie.
I Am A:: Reader, Writer, Editor
Website:: http://www.clandestine-books.com.au
Books And Authors I Like:: My writing hero is Val McDermid.
I love women's crime fiction; spy and adventure thrillers; and sci fi. Favourite Aussie authors include: PD Martin, Kerry Greenwood, Leigh Redhead, Kathryn Fox, Sydney Bauer, Alison Goodman, and Narrelle Harris. Also Geoffrey McGeachin, Shane Maloney & David A Rollins. Favourite 'others' include: Nelson DeMille, Tom Robbins (that's Tom, not Harold) and Steven Pressfield.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:: Xena Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, all Star Trek (except Enterprise), Firefly, Hex, CSI, Medium, Torchwood, Dr Who, Wire in the Blood, Smallville, NCIS, The Closer, Dexter.
The Alien quadrilogy, Terminator 1 & 2, Blade 1,2 & 3, D.E.B.S. Galaxy Quest, Tomb Raider 1 & 2, Bound, the 3 Pirates of the Carib., Willow, The Transporter, all the Die Hards, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Kill Bill, Buckaroo Banzai

Comment Wall:

MysteryDawg

Welcome aboard.

Jan 18, 2008
Lindy Cameron

Thanks for the welcome, MDawg

Jan 18, 2008
Karen from AustCrime

Lindy - how lovely to see you here - welcome to Crimspace.

At the risk of sounding a bit like a gushing idiot - loved Redback, it is a fabulous book.

I'm on the other side - in the Dandenong Ranges, with slightly smaller menagerie in tow :)

Jan 18, 2008
helen black

Hi Sister.
Do you have a website?
And can we bget your stuff in the UK? I love and like to support fellow female writers.
Also we have a TV series based on McDermid's Tony Hill series - do you get that in Aus?
HB x

Jan 18, 2008
Karen from AustCrime

Hi Lindy - I'm glad you liked the review - it's terrifying knowing that authors are reading your incoherent ramblings on their books....

I'm not a member and the only reason I can plead is laziness. I've told myself to grow up this year and make the effort and I've got the membership form here ready to go :)

I hope you enjoy Crimespace - it's a great place to meet up with lots of other readers and authors - yell if you need a hand / get bamboozled.

Jan 21, 2008
Geoff McGeachin

Hi Lindy,
Very pleased to hear you enjoyed Alby’s first adventure. He’s in a truck heading for the Lao-Vietnam border right about now in book three. Love life still a bit of a shambles but SENSITIVE NEW AGE SPY explains the reasons for that. The whaling subplot in SNAS is sadly once again topical.

I put REDBACK on my ‘buy’ list after Karen’s AustCrime comments (obviously a reviewer of taste and discernment). Looking forward to reading it.

Geoff

Jan 21, 2008
Liz Filleul

Hi Lindy! Good to see you here! Hope all's well and that we'll catch up in person at a SinC event soon!

Jan 22, 2008
Caro Soles

Aha! Another Val McDermid fan! Sadly I don't recognize most of teh other writers you mention. Aussies?

Caro from Toronto, Canada

Jan 22, 2008
Jacqui Horwood

Hey, Lindy! Your page here is looking good.

Jan 25, 2008
Mark Stevens

Antler Dust features a female guide in the Flat Tops Wilderness of western Colorado and a tangle between hunters and animal rights protesters.

Great reviews from The Denver Post, Aspen Times, Great Falls (Montana) Tribune and five stars on Amazon.

Just thought I'd pass that along...

Cheers,

Mark

Jan 28, 2008
Geoff McGeachin

Hi Lindy,

Re your forum post on gay or lesbian spies/side kicks - not sure if you’ve read SENSITIVE NEW AGE SPY yet so I don’t want to give anything away but Alby has an interesting associate working in Canberra. And in FAT, FIFTY & F***ED! the hero-on-the-run travels north to meet up with an old high school buddy named Jack Stark, a highly decorated but dishonourably discharged Vietnam veteran turned heavily armed conspiracy freak, Stark is rumoured to be living in a booby trapped mountain top bunker with blond nymphomaniac twins for company and a pack of savage guard dogs for protection. Let’s just say a lot of things are not exactly as advertised.

Jan 31, 2008
L.J. Sellers

Just saying Hi and getting to know other writers.
Stiletto sounds like a fun job (more so than the behavior
management books I edit...ick)
I just added Killer in the Family to my TBR list.

Feb 19, 2008
L.J. Sellers

I always wonder:
How many of the crime writers on these sites and list serves
(4MA, DorothyL, etc.) actually make a living from their books or short stories?
Not me . . . yet.

Feb 19, 2008
The Rural Writer

Thanks for the invite! You never know- I may it that way someday!

Mar 11, 2008
Vikki Petraitis

Hi Lindy - as you can see, I signed up!

Mar 11, 2008
Jeannie Faulkner Barber

Lindy,
Thanks for being a friend. I just found Crimespace and everyone is so warm and congenial! This is such a neat website.
Blessings,
Jeannie

Jun 19, 2008
Luis

Hello, I'm glad that you added me. I'm sure that Australian true crime and U.S. true crime differ only in small, but entertaining ways! People are people, but contexts and circumstances really influence how people commit crimes, or at least how they are perceived.

Aug 5, 2008
Wilma Vialle

Hi Lindy, I am in Prague at the moment, coming to the end of reading "Bleeding Hearts", which I brought from Oz with me. My apologies for using this forum, but Google didn't find an email address although I did find your website. You've probably been told this before, but there's a "continuity" problem in the book. In ch 25 (p. 485 in the version I have), Virginia's surname is referred to twice as Carter instead of Walsh. I hadn't encountered your work before and enjoyed this book immensely. I'll look forward to catching up with the others when I get back home.

Sep 17, 2008
Brian Kavanagh

Hello Lindy,
Another Melbournite! And another cat person, although sadly I don't have a PC at the moment. Good to catch up!
Cheers,
Brian

Nov 9, 2008
carole gill

Hi Lindy!
of course Australia is the best country!
Just read your comment on the election and I loved it!
Yup, first time in a LONG time I was really proud of the US!
Still flying over the results!

Nov 12, 2008
Jacqui Horwood

Birds of a feather, hey. We need to start a Procrastinaters Anonymous Support Group for writers!

Nov 13, 2008
Jackie Tritt

Hi Lindy

Good to 'meet' you. I live near Upper Beaconsfield, so not too far away, but I have a daughter in Balnarring and other family at Mount Martha, who would be closer to you on the peninsula.

A friend gave me Scarlet Stiletto, first cut, and I really enjoyed it, so well done. As for Sisters in Crime - I've been to some award nights and I don't know how many times I've sat down to fill in a membership form, but I've never actually completed one - always interrupted and never got back to it (story of my life, really).

Maybe I'll treat myself to a membership for Christmas - I just have to remember.

Cheers

Jackie

Nov 13, 2008
Jackie Tritt

Thanks for that, Lindy - I'll try SinC-Oz.

Jackie

Nov 13, 2008
carole gill

Proscrastination is my dearest friend! I wallow in it sometimes. Of course I do have a couple of demonic acquaintances, too: Envy and Spite!
They do my head in--! I've just about subdued Proscrastination, but Envy and
Spite do pester me occasionally, along with Writer's B--(but I don't like to think about that)¬
seriously, thanks! and welcome, friend!
I have a few real friends on here--not folks I've met, but people I really liked, I'm sure you're going to be one, Lindy! I can tell.

Nov 13, 2008
Brian Kavanagh

Hi Lindy. My books are only available on line, as BeWrite only publish that way, being a small press. They are on Amazon etc., but if buying from Australia I suggest the best way is to purchase from The Book Depository in UK. They are really very good and postage is included, yet they are cheaper than Amazon. You can of course ask any bookshop to get them in, but that is expensive. Check out The book Depository, http://www.bookdepository.co.uk
or ask your library to purchase them! :-)
Hint: the City of Yarra has the three books, so you may ask your library to borrow them for you.
Cheers,
Brian

Nov 18, 2008