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Posted by airyfairy. Thank you again for all the wonderful reads this week!

I had the great pleasure of talking to Edith Zeitlberger of EZ Fiction about MALIGN INTENT and the background to the creation of Crowe. She is extremly warm and engaging and her podcasts have a very easy going vibe. It was an absolute pleasure to chat to her. Links below - MURDER IN IRELAND. YouTube Spotify https://www.robert-cravenauthor.ie Check them out!

It’s mandatory to namecheck Louise Welsh’s debut novel, The Cutting Room , which won just about everything. This is her tenth novel. It’s set in much the same place as her first. In and around Downhill, Partick and the West End of Glasgow. The protagonist is Jim Brennan. He’s a Professor at Glasgow University, his speciality is criminology. Louise Welsh is a Professor at Glasgow Uni too. Her speciality is Creative Writing. I take it she’s not...

Some of you may remember this story being serialised on ABCTales during the dark days of the pandemic? Sometimes, I thought it was the only thing keeping me sane! Well, for one day only (Sunday, 8th September), this rather overlooked little book is absolutely FREE as a Kindle version. What people have kindly said aboout it: " Really enjoyed this right riotous rollicking story, Ethel, a young lady of good family has somehow found herself homeless...

Save the date Location - The Academy Plaza Hotel, Findlater Place, Dublin 1 I will be speaking at The International Dublin Writer's Festival on Saturday 21st, The theme of my talk is my personal writing journey over 10 books, and remaining resitlient and positive offering insights and suggesteions in this rapidly shifting environment of indie publishing. My latest Malign Intent will be available at the venue and I will be happy to chat...

In My Own Words, Billy Connolly, BBC 1, BBC Scotland, BBC iPlayer, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022mr1/in-my-own-words-series-1-billy-connolly Billy Connolly seems to have been about forever. He’s the face and voice of Scotland. The face of Glasgow where he grew up and worked on the Clyde as a welder. That working-class grounding, he claimed, made him the man he was. He’s Parkinson disease (the bastard should have kept it to himself)...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for August, very kindly chosen by Mark Burrow, and apologies for the lateness of this which you can blame on good old Greater Anglia Railway: It’s been another excellent month of stories and poems on ABCtales. The Pick of the Month for poetry is A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024 by harryc. It’s a timely reflection on ‘smartphones’. Good for convenience, yes, but maybe not so great for attention spans and...

...why the next episode in the 'Dead Reckoning' series hasn't appeared in the normal manner, I'm afraid it's because I've been busy being 70 (I know, I know, where does the time go to?!) Normal service (for a septuagenarian anyway) will be resumed as soon as possible I've also got an additional one-off silly story to post, coming soon (hopefully).