Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 124

The Bouchercon Initiation

On the Road Again – Give us some of your funniest and most memorable stories from travelling to book festivals. 

Hi everyone. It's Brenda Chapman starting off the week.

I've had some great times over the years at book conferences in different cities in Canada and the U.S. but one that stands out was my first Bouchercon in Baltimore, October 2008. At the time, I had a series of four middle grade mysteries published and managed to secure a spot on a panel. I was fortunate to have my good friend Kath...

Guest post: Announcing a new international crime fiction festival for Wales...and the WORLD!

Alis Hawkins here, co-Chair of Crime Cymru. I'm happy to have been invited to write this guest post today by Paul D. Marks (via Cathy Ace, our "inside agent").

Until now, there has been no established crime fiction festival in Wales. But, if you’re keyed in to UK-based crime fiction social media, you’ll know that’s about to change. In spring 2022 – when, hopefully, we’ll all have learned how to live with the Coronavirus – Welsh crime writers’ collective, Crime Cymru, is launching the country’s fi...

The Reichenbach Option, by Catriona

Endgame – After considering killing off his hero, Lee Child is handing over the writing of the Jack Reacher Novels to his brother, Andrew. Would you consider killing your protagonists, and how do you envisage ending their careers?

I talk big. Several times on panels I've said one of the good things about standalones is anyone can die (although first person POV is a bit of a problem). But when it comes to the bit my protagonist always survives beyond the last chapter. In fact, I usually end up mus...

A plague on their heads? by Cathy Ace

Endgame – After considering killing off his hero, Lee Child is handing over the writing of the Jack Reacher Novels to his brother, Andrew. Would you consider killing your protagonists, and how do you envisage ending their careers?

My immediate, and brief, response to this is “No, I wouldn’t (currently) consider killing off any of my protagonists, and I haven’t yet given any thought to how I might end their ‘careers’.” (I’m hoping this is good news for anyone reading this…fingers crossed!)

Howeve...

Time for the Gold Watch

Endgame – After considering killing off his hero, Lee Child is handing over the writing of the Jack Reacher Novels to his brother, Andrew. Would you consider killing your protagonists, and how do you envisage ending their careers?

- From Frank

The short answer is yes. I have, in fact. I won't tell you which books, though - that would ruin things.

I will let on with a smaller spoiler, though. Although he is not a protagonist, per se, Officer Anthony Battaglia is a significant support character in my...

Immortals

 Q: After considering killing off his hero, Lee Child is handing over the writing of the Jack Reacher Novels to his brother, Andrew. Would you consider killing your protagonists, and how do you envisage ending their careers?

-from Susan

Kill? Kill? For a crime writer, I’m pretty squeamish when it comes to my own protagonists, my creations, my fictional siblings. I bump off bad people easily and with pleasure, but Dani O’Rourke, or Katherine Hoff or Pippa? No way. In fact, I long to go back and fin...

Big Secret

 

Tell us about your next book. Your WIP or the one after that.

Abir Mukherjee

 

Morning. Abir here, which means it must be Friday. The weekend is only hours away!

 

Just enough time to tell you what I’ve been working on.

 

So, the last twelve months have been an exciting time chez Mukherjee. It all started with my agent swanning off to New York. Of course I just rolled my eyes and thought, ‘there goes Sam, off on another of his jaunts across the pond'. To be fair, my agent is very glamorous - he tells ...

A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson

Jim, here. Today, we welcome a guest, Alice Henderson, author of a A SOLITUDE OF WOLVERINES. I read an advance copy of this book a couple of months ago and was transported. Simply thrilling from start to finish. You’re going to hear a lot from Alice in the years to come. She writes about fascinating creatures and places. I guarantee you’ll love A SOLITUDE OF WOLVERINES. Here’s what I wrote about this novel.

"Passionately detailed and exquisitely researched, Alice Henderson's A Solitude of Wolveri...

Coming down the pike …

Tell us about your next book. Your WIP or the one after that.

by Dietrich

Perfect time to be asked this question — thanks, Jim. My next one’s called Cradle of the Deep, and it’s set to be released on November 3rd.

Here’s the pitch:

Getting into bed with the wrong guy can get you killed.

Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangster “Maddog” Palmieri, Bobbi Ricci concocts a misguided plan with Denny Barrenko, Maddog’s ex-driver, a guy who’s bent on getting even with the gangster for the h...

Welcome to Jonelle Patrick

It is with great pleasure that I introduce Jonelle Patrick as my guest today. Jonelle is the author of five novels set in Japan. She also writes the Japanagram monthly newsletter, blogs at Only In Japan ( jonellepatrick.me) and posts more than anyone could possibly want to know at jonellepatrick.com. The Last Tea Bowl Thief came out October 20, 2020. I read The Last Tea Bowl Thief and was completed bowled over (pun intended), so I decided for the first time to have a guest in my regular place ...