Calling sci-fi and fantasy buffs: our Bristol Litfest moment


At last your submissions are in and our minds are made up – no mean feat! And so we can tell you the stories you’ll hear on October 20th are by: Dylan Spicer, Liz Clarke, Shirley Wright, Mary March, Mark Rutterford and our own Dawn Kelly and Jean Burnett, not forgetting a guest appearance bywriter…
Really looking forward to Saturday 5th September when we’re off to Corsham Creative Market where Jo Lambert will be joining the usual gang to run a book stall with great variety and lots of bargains at Springfield Community Campus. For those who don’t know Corsham, the old town centre is a real gem (and recently masqueraded as…
While we rub our hands and gloat over a very tasty bag of submissions for our next event, here’s Gail’s snapshot of Stokes Croft Writers’ carefully managed assault on the genteel cobbles of Bath. It was a steamy hot summer night on the not-so-mean streets of Bath, when a motley crew of Bristol writers came…
Though we say it ourselves, our Crime Night Story Sunday went particularly well and we are grateful to all of our readers and the enthusiastic audience who made it such a friendly and entertaining evening ( pictures at the bottom of the page!) We still have to decide on next year’s programme but will keep…
Since I finally ‘came out’ as a crime writer last spring, with the publication of Her Last Chance, the first in the DI Crow crime thriller series, the questions I’ve been asked most by those who know me is, ‘Where did the urge to write crime come from?’ usually followed by ‘What on earth goes on in your head?’ After all, once I yank my leopard print shopping trolley out of the cupboard and head off to the local supermarket, the only crime-busting hero I remotely resemble is Miss Marple.
A little about my third book, which takes me in a new direction, and into some potentially treacherous waters… In this novel, a bunch of private Caribbean islands band together to create a brand new nation, the ‘People’s Republic of Love’, governed by the citizen with the most followers on social media.