by Erin Mitchell | May 12, 2021 | Awards, Features
The longlist of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year includes literary legends and dynamic debuts. In its 17th year, this year’s longlist transports readers around the world from California to Sweden and Calcutta to a remote Irish island and explores...
by Elise Cooper | May 10, 2021 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
A Wish For Home (Secrets of Bliss Valley Book 1) Jo Ann Brown March 30th, 2021 Love Inspired Pub A Wish For Home by Jo Ann Brown is a wonderful read. It delves into love, forgiveness, and second chances, something every reader can relate with. The heroine,...
by Elise Cooper | May 8, 2021 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
The Lady Has A Past (Burning Cove Book 5) Amanda Quick Berkley Pub May 4th, 2021 The Lady Has A Past by Amanda Quick (the pen name for Jayne Krentz) is another winner. This historical novel explores California in the 1930s with riveting characters and a suspenseful...
by Erin Mitchell | Apr 30, 2021 | Events
Essex Book Festival is thrilled to announce its spectacular extended summer programme, combining digital and in-person events with a WORDS MATTER theme at its core. Events include: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ESSEX GIRLS|...
by Emma Jameson | Apr 27, 2021 | Features, Pet Spotlight
I’m Emma Jameson, author of the new book A Death at Seascape House (Jem Jago Mysteries #1) and I have four cats. Four of them. Things escalate, mistakes get made, and one day you wake up with a quartet of fuzzy masters. These are mine. First came Zahara Mao. She’s a...
by Amy Suiter Clarke | Apr 21, 2021 | Features, Five Things
Like millions of people around the world, I discovered podcasts when I kept hearing about this one called Serial. I don’t remember where I first read the name or how I figured out where to find the podcast app on my phone, but I downloaded the episodes and started...
by Erin Mitchell | Apr 16, 2021 | Awards, Features
The 2021 longlists for the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, which honour the best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. The world-famous Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre, and have been synonymous with quality crime...
by Clare Chase | Apr 12, 2021 | Author Workspaces, Features
Clare Chase writes classic mysteries. Her aim is to take readers away from it all via some armchair sleuthing in atmospheric locations. Her debut novel was shortlisted for Novelicious’s Undiscovered Award, as well as an EPIC award post-publication, and was...
by Adele Parks | Apr 9, 2021 | Behind the Book, Features
Authors are often asked where we get the ideas for plots. There is no formula. I’ve written twenty novels and there’s never been two occasions when the idea came to me in the identical way.Sometimes it is a slow smudge of a process; a seemingly great idea reveals...
by Kelly Heard | Apr 9, 2021 | Features, Pet Spotlight
For every writer who could never write without a cat at their side, there’s another writer, sitting at their computer, trying for the hundredth time today to lovingly, gently nudge the cat off the keyboard. My cat is clawing my toes through my slippers right now. No...
