Spooky Cosy Spotlight

Some great spooky reading for Halloween curated by the brilliant GB Ralph (including the Crow Folk, now only 99!)โ€ฆ

Iโ€™ve gathered together a few books by author friends as Halloween grows near: some are mysteries, others are romcoms, and a few are fantasies, but no matter the genre, all are spooky and cosy. Scroll on down for your next cosy read this spooky seasonโ€ฆ Fright on Stage Right by G. B. Ralph Book links:โ€ฆ

Spooky Cosy Spotlight

A selection of spooky reads for Halloween

We have mystery and romance and fantasy. We have YA and adult. We have classics and new releases. We have cosy and spicy. We have trad and indie published. We have books Iโ€™ve enjoyed and those recommended to me (but which are still on my TBR!). And we have characters from every stripe of theโ€ฆ

A selection of spooky reads for Halloween

Mysterious Murders Short Story Competition: Less than a month to go…

The deadline cometh!

Enter here…

https://www.mysteriousmurders.com/home

Ivy Ngeow on the Creative Difference Livestream

Ivy Ngeow is the award-winning author of The American Boyfriend, Heart of Glass, White Crane Strikes, Overboard and more, she writes gripping, page-turning fiction and sheโ€™s also a musician and expert on interior design and can probably solve world peace. She is definitely an author that youโ€™ll want to catch live as she is a ton of fun.

Join us live: WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST, 8PM BST

Or join us on Youtube…

Plotting for Writers who donโ€™t Plotโ€ฆ A Green Room special with Paul Austin Ardoin

A bonus episode of the podcast with special guest Paul Austin Ardoin. Paul is the author of Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and he joined me and Green Room members to discuss his brilliant new nonfiction book, Outlining for Novelists who don’t Outline, which is packed with tips for panster writers who want more control over their story without losing their voice.

We discuss:
If you can you pants a mystery
Creating vivid characters
Coping with disappearing sidekicks and much more!



Or watch it on Youtube…


This is the sort of stuff that we discuss in my online writing group The Green Room all the time and I’m planning on having more special guests in the future. You can join today! There’s more about the Green Room here.


LINKS
Paul’s website: https://paulaustinardoin.com
Outlining for Novelists who don’t Outline: https://paulaustinardoin.com/products/outlining-for-novelists-who-dont-outline
Bestseller Experiment Ben Aaronovitch episode: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/ep22-ben-aaronovitch-great-bollocking/

Tim Sullivan on the Creative Differences Livestream

Join me and TIM SULLIVAN, author of the brilliant DS George Cross series, who also had an extraordinary career as a director and screenwriter including episodes Jeremy Brettโ€™s Sherlock Holmes, working with Derek Jarman, Coronation Street, the movie Jack and Sarah, the last episode of Cold Feet, he work on Flushed Away, Shrek and My Little Pony (bet you didnโ€™t see that last one coming).
Heโ€™s an inspiration for writers, so donโ€™t miss it!

Weโ€™ll be discussing keeping a series fresh, screenwriting, tips for writing neurodivergent characters and more!


Join us live: MONDAY 2OTH JULY, 8PM BST

  • 9pm CEST
  • 3pm EDT
  • 2pm CDT
  • 1pm MDT
  • 12 noon EDT
  • Tuesday 21st 7am NZST
  • Tuesday 2st 5am AEST


Or on Youtube…

A Woodville Short Story Exclusive…

OUT TODAY! Of Dread, Decay and Doom is a horror anthology featuring short stories from an incredible roster of writers, and me! My contribution is Elderflower Cordial, a story set in Woodville in 1981 and featuring a character featured in The Corn Bride… and you can only read it in this anthology. Click on the image below for all the buy links you can eat…

Karen Storey on the Creative Differences Livestream

Karen Storey is the award-winning author of the brilliant debut novel THE APPROVAL OF SHEEP. Karen is a prolific short story writer, and and her memoir pieces have been published in The New York Times and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, andโ€ฆ her newsletter is written by her cat Tiffany. Weโ€™re going to discuss why you should set up a website and newsletter before youโ€™ve finished your debut novel and much moreโ€ฆ

Join us live: MONDAY 13TH APRIL, 8PM BST

Or join us on Youtube…

Start them while theyโ€™re young!

When I was a young, chubby, little bright orange haired child, I vividly remember playing in the garden with my sister. My mum would be pottering โ€ฆ

Start them while theyโ€™re young!

Me. Julie Wassmer. Staines. Live!

I’ll be chatting to Julie Wassmer, author of the brilliant Whitstable Pearl series, and screenwriter for shows likes EastEnders about her incredible career live and in person at the Staines Library Hub on Saturday 14th March from 3pm!

If you want to know about writing for TV, writing a series that gets made into a TV series (surely the Holy Grail for every novelist!) then join us before the tickets sell out! Like, now!! Click on the big picture below…