America or bust...

So... just a few days till we take off for the new world: three crazy weeks on tour through America with three (some would argue equally crazy) crime writers.  What could go wrong?  Soon the four of us will depart for New York and the adventure really begins.  Of course updating websites while we're on the run is difficult, but we did want to share the expedition as it happened and so we have consolidated and will be reporting back daily articles, pictures, footage, opinions etc to https://dailyreview.com.au/ and posting pictures and thoughts to Instagram @mysterywritersontherun.  So check in, follow our adventures in the US and if something goes awry please send someone to come get us!

         

And by way of reminder the tour schedule - if you're in the neighbourhood, come out and say hello.  We will explain Vegemite!

Links to Events:

Bouchercon

Poisoned Pen Press

Diesel - A Bookstore

Flintridge Bookstore & CoffeeHouse

Book Carnival

Noir At the Bar

Vroman's Bookstore

CAL Grant

Australia's Copyright Agency announced its Cultural Fund Create grants yesterday, and I found myself the very honoured, mildly astounded and extremely ecstatic recipient of a grant forf my latest project: a metafictional thriller called Letters From Leo, which was described as "a post-modern cross-cultural thriller that sets up stories within stories, entwining the narratives in a climax that can be read on many levels".  

It is the nature of a writer's life that rarely do we have the opportunity to write a book without feeling like we're stealing from our families so that we may do so.  Grants like this give artists and writers the opportunity to work without guilt - or at least with less guilt.  They hold the world at bay while we create.

It is an amazing and valuable gift and I could not be more grateful.

Tour itenary

Where you can catch up with us in the US!  Four very talkative Australians looking for conversation... and the occassional coffee...

P.S. Join us on tour on Instragram @mysterywritersontherun

Hit List - Crime Writers at the Wheeler Centre

My first ever appearance at the Wheeler Centre.

BAD Sydney 2019

This September I'll be appearing at BAD 19: Sydney Crime Writers Festival for the first time.

Both my sessions are on Sunday 8 September, though I'll be in Sydney that entire weekend.  You can see the entire splendid program here.

I'll be appearing in History Mysteries alongside Robert Gott, and Peter Doyle (moderated by Rachael Franks) at 11.15 am

and almost straight afterwards in My Favourite Fictional Dective with Candice Fox and Laurie Oakes (moderated by Kate Evans).

I'm a little excited, but I'm a crime writer so I'm playing it cool...

So... come along.  Be BAD!