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Val McDermid

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First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Lin Anderson

Summer Festivals 2012: Books

Bloody ScotlandWhere: Harmony Garden, Melrose, 14–17 June, bordersbookfestival.orgPrice: £9–£13 per event.Line-up: Sir David Frost, Hilary Mantel, William Boyd, Alistair Darling, John SessionsThere have been a few eyebrows raised by this year’s programme, ... [ Published May 25 2012 by The List ]

Entities: Scotland, Lin Anderson, Quintin Jardine, Crime, Stuart MacBride

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Mazars

Programme Announced For Scotland's First Crime Writing Festival

Chris Brookmyre and Quintin Jardine joined a host of fellow writers today to reveal the programme for Bloody Scotland, the first crime writing festival north of the border. The inaugural Bloody Scotland, sponsored by Mazars, will take place in Stirling ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]

Entities: Scotland, Crime, Mazars

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing

Jeanette Winterson believes that learning how to write, even reasonably well, gives fluency to the rest of lifeHi, I'm currently doing a creative writing essay and I'd like to ask for advice on how you would describe a bomb …That is my favourite Google ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Jeanette Winterson, Manchester, University of Manchester, Teaching

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Val McDermid

2012 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Longlist Revealed

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Longlist Revealed Press Release: Prizes and Awards Posted at 1:12AM Friday 18 May 2012A mix of writers old and new will do battle in this year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, one ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]

Entities: Crime, Belinda Bauer, Val McDermid, Neil Cross

First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 1 Documents

Kindle

Roaming authors' back listings to keep Kindle prices down

The war over digital book prices has many fronts. Publishing companies accuse Amazon, the dominant player and inventor of the Kindle, of artificially pricing books so low in the device's early days that it put book stores on life support. But Kindle owners, ... [ Published May 12 2012 by al.com ]

Entities: Kindle, Jason Goodwin, Deborah Crombie

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Victoria Hislop

Who's helping who in the cover blurb game?

Few books now appear without enthusiastic recommendations from other authors, but does anyone really believe them?How many books can one man recommend? I sometimes feel that my name is on the cover of more books than I've actually written myself, which ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Victoria Hislop, Jeff Abbott, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

04.17.12 Mysteries, Every Person in New York

The 66th anniversary of the Edgar Awards, the big prize for mystery writers, takes place on April 26 at the Grand Hyatt. While the star power may not match the Oscars, the body count is higher. TicketsSince all those mystery writers will be in one place ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Manhattan Users Guide ]

Entities: Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Caudwell, Geoffrey Household, Edmund Crispin

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Memoirs from the athenaeum theatres

WORKSOP Public Library in Britain once had a resident book eater. The librarians kept noticing that little bits of pages had been neatly ripped out from the books. Then they found pellets of chewed-up paper lying around.They worked out who it was and ... [ Published May 04 2012 by WA Today ]

Entities: Oscar Wilde, Richmal Crompton, Val McDermid, Zadie Smith

First Reported May 02 2012 - Updated May 02 2012 - 1 Documents

Bywater Books Names Karlsberg Publisher

Bywater Books announced that industry veteran Michele Karlsberg has been named publisher. Bywater Books is incorporated in Michigan, although two of the presss three co-owners, former bookseller Kelly Smith and author Val McDermid, live in England. The ... [ Published May 02 2012 by PublishersWeekly.com ]

Entities: Kelly Smith, Val McDermid, Lesbian, Gay, Ann Arbor (United States)

First Reported Apr 21 2012 - Updated Apr 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Watch out Sarah Lund – there’s a new Scandinavian detective on the block

Alison Graham welcomes The Bridge, the latest Scandinavian drama you can’t afford to missCommentsShare this episodeWritten ByAlison GrahamThe lights suddenly go out on the ten-mile Oresund Bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. When they come on again, ... [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Radio Times ]

Entities: Lund (Sweden), Sofia Helin, Crime, Oresund Bridge, Val McDermid

First Reported Apr 17 2012 - Updated Apr 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Mysteries, A Troubling Side of the BIDs, Every Person in New York

Every Person in New YorkThe 66th anniversary of the Edgar Awards, the big prize for mystery writers, takes place on April 26 at the Grand Hyatt. While the star power may not match the Oscars, the body count is higher. TicketsSince all those mystery writers ... [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Manhattan Users Guide ]

Entities: Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Crispin, Geoffrey Household, C. Bentley (MCC cricketer)

First Reported Apr 12 2012 - Updated Apr 13 2012 - 1 Documents

JK Rowling: Growing detail of first adult novel emerges

The Casual Vacancy – whose title has been revealed for the first time – will be a black comedy about 'a town at war'Further details of JK Rowling's forthcoming first novel for adults have been revealed, with her publisher announcing that her "blackly ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: JK Rowling, Harry Potter, emergency, Mark Haddon, Mark Billingham

Quotes

Leading Scottish crime author Val McDermid commented: "if scotland does go for independence, there's one thing we won't be short of we've already got more than our fair share of top class crime writers, and plenty of them will be on show at bloody scotland."

Programme Announced For Scotland's First Crime Writing Festival [Booktrade - Book2Book - May 21 2012]

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Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing [ Published May 18 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
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Who's helping who in the cover blurb game? [ Published May 11 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
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Memoirs from the athenaeum theatres [ Published May 04 2012 by WA Today ]
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