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Adult Truth #14

#14I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.”

What is needed is a phone that will list the name of the person who's calling even if you don't have that person as a contact. So much easier to avoid sales people or telemarketers. I still get calls from them every once in awhile.

This truth reminded…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on June 6, 2014 at 11:48pm — No Comments

COMING ATTRACTIONS

What constitutes a beach read? Any book that whisks you away on a cyber (or cerebral) vaca! Here's the 7 authors with new titles and a chance to win three books: Nancy Parra, Annamaria Alfieri, David Freed, Jan Christensen, Aneta Adamcova-Cruz, Laura Benedict and Nancy Lynn Jarvis.…

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Added by Sunny Frazier on June 1, 2014 at 3:17am — No Comments

Horror Movie Lessons

horror-blog-jpg_192440 A couple weeks ago I was watching a horror movie (and may I digress for just a moment to say that horror movies don't really impress me much anymore? One has to be pretty darn good to be 'scary'.) and I thought about some of the lessons or truisms to be learned from these movies. I posted some of them on Facebook but later I wrote them down to post them on my blog. Plus, this would be a good…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on May 30, 2014 at 8:14pm — No Comments

Secrets and lies and how they lead to murder in the new DI Andy Horton Crime Novel, Shroud of Evil, by Pauline Rowson

How far would you go to protect a secret? Would you risk your job for it, your friends your family? Would you kill for it?

The story behind the latest DI Andy Horton crime novel, Shroud of Evil number eleven in the series, explores the corrosive nature of secrets. It plunges the flawed and…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on May 30, 2014 at 1:00am — No Comments

Pauline Rowson entertains the audience at Bognor Regis with the exploits of her fictional DI, the flawed and rugged Andy Horton

Had a great time talking to the audience at Bognor Regis Library on 20 May. They were a lovely friendly group of people and I was delighted to meet many die hard DI Andy Horton fans.

If you haven’t tried the DI Andy Horton novels yet, there are currently eleven in the Horton series, with the latest,…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on May 23, 2014 at 9:29pm — No Comments

A Wife's Ode to the Cocktail Hour

My husband and I had a lot of fun before we had kids. I mean A LOT. We traveled, we spent money like crack whores, we had nooners for heaven’s sake.

And we also loved going out for cocktails. We probably met at some swanky bar, or curious hell hole, or trendy hipster joint five days a week after work.

It was fun.

And least of all because we got a little…

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Added by Victoria Dougherty on May 22, 2014 at 8:30am — No Comments

What's good about crime? CrimeFest 2014

My panel appearance at CrimeFest 2014 was on Friday 15 May at 17.10 and the last panel of the day. Beforehand I spent some time catching up with some of my fellow crime writers and my publisher before taking tea and a delicious slice of Bara Brith Cake (Welsh fruit loaf) in the cafe in Bristol Library where I chatted to the librarians, delighted to hear that my crime novels are very popular with their readers.

After fortifying myself it was time to head for the Green Room in…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on May 19, 2014 at 9:46pm — No Comments

World Blog Tour

do-24-world-tour Today I join in the World Blog Tour. I've done something similar in the past but I hope to keep it going by first, thanking the one who proceeded me, Sherri Hanson, (www.sherriehansen.wordpress.com…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on May 17, 2014 at 12:28am — No Comments

More library talks lined up for crime author, Pauline Rowson in 2014

Three more speaking engagements in libraries have been added to my calendar of events for 2014 which means that I will be speaking and meeting lots of readers in libraries around the UK.

I’m delighted to have been asked to speak to readers at Bognor Regis, Worthing, Lymington, Yate and Weymouth Libraries about the flawed and rugged hero …

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Added by Pauline Rowson on May 15, 2014 at 1:12am — No Comments

Empty Places on sale for 99 cents!

Mark your calendars!
 
The Kindle version of my latest mystery thriller Empty Places will available this week at a discounted price of only 99 cents. 
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Added by Martin Roy Hill on May 12, 2014 at 2:41am — 1 Comment

Tulsa, Sunday May 25th; See You There (for Oklahomans only)

Sunday, May 25th--you know you need to read about Skiatook Lake after you ski it Memorial Day weekend.

STRIKE PRICE is set in Tulsa and northeast Oklahoma, except for the scenes in North Dakota, Minnesota, Chicago, San Antonio, Vancouver, England, Paris, Florence, and the south of England...

Sunday, May 25 at 2:00 pm

Barnes & Noble - Woodland Plaza

8620 71st…

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Added by L. A. Starks on May 9, 2014 at 10:46am — No Comments

What's in the diary for May

In May I'll be appearing at Crimefestin the UK. I'll be on a panel on Friday 16 May with fellow crime authors Elizabeth Haynes, Chris Longmuir, Lesley Thomson and Felix Francis entitled "What’s So Good About Crime?" It will be held between 17.10 and 18.00. CrimeFest takes place at the Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel, UK from 15 - 18 May 2014.

Then on Tuesday 20 May I will be entertaining the audience at Bognor Regis Library…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on May 5, 2014 at 11:25pm — No Comments

Confessions - a police perspective

Confessions

Added by JM Peace on May 3, 2014 at 3:33pm — 1 Comment

Crime writing from true crime

I am reading a true crime novel and wonder just how to get started doing that. To be successful you would have to interview  everyone identified with the case in any capacity as well as the family of the victim and family of the perpetrator. You would need to talk to the defense and to the prosecutor's office. You need to interview the accused.

How do you get people to cooperate? I don't suppose most would fully trust the writer to portray them as they see themselves. Most would not…

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Added by Saundra Crum Akers on May 3, 2014 at 9:40am — 1 Comment

Have Fun

<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/964635566?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/964635566?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-full"></a>Whenever I leave work I usually depart with the words, “Have fun” to the person on the next shift. It's been a fairly standard saying for years. I never mean it as a sarcastic statement as if I expect the next shift to be droll or rockin'…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on May 2, 2014 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Review Request for 'Owned'

I am currently seeking some reviews for Owned, a short story collection.



I have included some information about the book below:

Title: Owned
Author: Jess C Scott
Genre: Psychological Thriller / Crime

Length: 14,000 words / 6 stories…


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Added by Jess C Scott on May 2, 2014 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Psycho Thrillers

Check out my Psycho Thrillers blog if you'd like to contribute a crime-related guest post :)

http://psychothrillers.wordpress.com/submit/

Added by Jess C Scott on May 2, 2014 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Join New Writing North for Crime Story

A weekend festival for crime writers and readers



Spend a weekend getting under the skin of a fictional crime with top crime writers, criminologists, lawyers, police and forensics experts. New Writing North and Northumbria University invite crime writers (aspiring or established) and readers to Crime Story – a weekend of discussion and workshops focusing on a fictional crime and how it would be investigated in real life.



Ann Cleeves, prize-winning author of the Vera Stanhope…

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Added by Tammy Moore on April 29, 2014 at 10:43pm — No Comments

The Cold Nowhere - Brian Freeman

I've read the first couple of Brian Freeman's  novels featuring protagonist Jonathan Stride. His latest novel, The Cold Nowhere, is the sixth in…

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Added by Luanne Ollivier on April 29, 2014 at 4:05am — No Comments

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