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Sapphic Book Review Podcast with Nicki Vincent

Laura Sieber Green is one of my favourite people to record a podcast with, so adding ace narrator Nicola Vincent for an audiobook-themed chat was like putting a (very northern) cherry on top of an already fabulous sundae.

If you want to know what some of our favourite English-isms are, what I think Meg and Sanne are up to these days, and (scoop!) what the sequel to A Calculated Risk is going to be called, hit this link

A Calculated Risk Wins a Lammy Award!

I woke up to the news that A Calculated Risk had scooped the Lambda award for LGBTQ Best Mystery at last night’s ceremony, and I’m absolutely chuffed to bits.

I tried to thank a few people in a just-in-case speech I’d cobbled together, but I had no idea whether I was even allowed to make a speech so I kept it very very short. So short, I forgot to thank all of you, the ones who actually read my damn books, who’ve always supported me and chatted with me on social media, and loved the books fo...

Bold Strokes Online Book Fest

Bold Strokes are kicking off 2024 with a five day Zoom book fest featuring loads of panels, readings and general shenanigans. There’s a jam-packed schedule and the sessions are all free to attend.

Hit THIS link to register for the panels you’re interested in. I’ll be around on Saturday 13th December for a crime/thriller reading panel then a discussion about writing in your own voice. If you can’t make the live panels, everything will be uploaded to YouTube at some point.

Hope to see some ...

Holiday Podcast

Here’s a lil festive podcast to get you in the festive mood this festive season! I’m on it with a bunch of other lovely WLW folks chatting fave xmas films, favourite gifts, and NYE plans (spoiler: I will be going to bed around 8pm because: work.) Enjoy!

Click here to listen.

Merry Christmas all

A Calculated Risk Audio Book Winners

Just a quickie to announce the winners of the A Calculated Risk audio code giveaway. Congrats to: Eve Croucher, Dawn Myers-Ward, Emily Buxton, Diane Durbin Field, Des Williams, Liz Bowen-Dack, Tara Warne-Griggs, Seff Goodsir, Cecilia Richardson, and here on my blog, spettro280.

Please check your DMs because I will be side stepping into them very shortly (check your message requests if we’re not FB friends!) Thank you kindly to everyone who entered.

A Calculated Risk Audio Giveaway

Happy Halloween With spookily perfect timing, my freebie codes for the quite brilliant audio version of A Calculated Risk are now mine! So, clearly, I need to give them away. I have ten codes available for either Audible US or UK ONLY. If you want to know the proper way to say “besom” or just want to listen to Nicola Vincent’s absolutely spot-on narration, say BOO! in the comments. Closing date for entries is noon GMT, Thursday 2nd Nov (giveaway is also running over on my Facebook profile.)

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A Calculated Risk Now Available on Audio

A lot of folks have been asking and I am tickled pink to confirm that the audio book of A Calculated Risk – narrated by the wonderful Nicola Vincent – is now available.

I won’t have any freebie codes for a while yet but it deserves a celebration so I’ve put together a Spooky Season Treat* box full of goodies from the book for a lucky winner. Drop a comment telling me your fave treat (or head to my Facebook page and “like” the post on there if you’re shy) and I’ll stick you in the hat. Closin...

A Calculated Risk Available Everywhere Today

A Calculated Risk has had a rather bumpy road to publication, not least of which has been Amazon’s last minute sabotaging of all its pre-orders. But it HAS been published today and it is now available to buy from anywhere and everywhere.

If you have been unfortunate enough to have your pre-order cancelled, please do re-order it. The kindle versions are being delivered without problems no matter what Amazon have said in their stupid bloody email.

With all that said, my lovelies, go and mee...

A Calculated Risk – The One That Almost Got Away

It started as they all start: the germ of an idea, an outline of the main characters, a setting, themes and a genre. I knew I wanted to write a series. I knew I wanted to set it “up north”, I knew that its leading ladies would once have loved and then lost each other. With all that settled, I made plans and character notes and more plans, and I spent hours chatting about it with my wife while we were out hiking. I also knuckled down and wrote 20,000 words, and they weren’t rubbish words eith...

Everything you need to know about ‘A Calculated Risk’ and a few more things besides (No Spoilers!)

With the first release date for A Calculated Risk less than a week away (FRIDAY 1st SEPTEMBER, to be precise!) I have written a super-useful primer for anyone who might have forgotten what a ‘butty’ is or are at all curious to know what Jo Shaw looks like in my head.

It’s the first book in a new series

I have definitely mentioned that A Calculated Risk is the first in a new crime/thriller series, but as I didn’t choose a name for said series in time, that fact is not noted on the c...