Dead Men Don’t Order Flake by Sisters in Crime member Sue Williams was launched by author Angela Savage, another member, before a large and enthusiastic crowd of family, friends and fans on 7 June at Readings Hawthorn. Here’s what Angela had to say: If there was a prize for best book title of the year, …
Congratulations to Deb Force (pictured right with Alana Tailby), Sun Bookshop owner and Sisters in Crime ‘s regular bookseller at Melbourne events, who was recently named joint winner of the 2016 Australian Book Association’s Text Publishing Bookseller of the Year Award. Deb wasn’t able to be at Sisters in Crime’s last event but we entrusted …
Saturday 16, 23 30 July Saturday 6, 13, 20, 27 August Saturday 3, 10, 17 September Novel Writing with best-selling author Vikki Petraitis will cater for both beginning writers and those already developing a novel. Components include: plotting, character development, narrative structure, and description. This course will give writers the chance to refine a …
The New England Writers’ Centre is proud to announce that entries are now open for the 2016 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. In this, the fourth year of the Prize, there are six awards on offer for crime writers. All genres of crime writing are eligible, from hard-boiled to comic, paranormal to rural, …
What better way to mark the beginning of winter on 1 June (and the return of nippy weather to Melbourne after a long Indian summer) than with the launch of Ann Turner’s new Antarctic thriller, Out of the Ice (Simon & Schuster. Ann joined Sisters in Crime when her first novel, The Lost Swimmer, was …
8pm Friday 7 October: Ann Turner and L. A. (Louisa) Larkin talk to Hazel Edwards about their new thrillers, both set in Antarctica, and why the landscape provides such an appealing, if chilling, scene of the crime. Ann Turner’s second crime novel, Out of the Ice (Simon & Schuster) explores the dark side of human …
LIZ PORTER: When people ask me what my first novel, Unnatural Order, is about, I say: It’s about an obsessive sexual relationship. That’s true, but it’s only part of the story. If I feel the questioner really wants to know, I venture the long answer and say that it’s about a journalist, Caroline, who goes …
Join Hybrid Publishing and Twisted History in a night of Murder with Janice Simpson, author of Murder in Mount Martha. Step back in time for an unforgettable evening, as you are incarcerated in the historic Bourke Street West Police Cells at the Royal Melbourne Hotel. Evening includes dinner, talks by Twisted History on Victoria’s Crime and …
MACMILLAN 2016 Reviewer: Sue Turnbull Synopsis Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well … When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is …
Proudly supported by Booktopia, Australia’s No. 1 online book seller Gala dinner: Saturday 27 August, 7pm Frock up and come and hear Liane Moriarty, global literary sensation and winner of the 2015 Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel) for Big Little Lies, present Sisters in Crime Australia’s 16th Davitt Awards. Prior to the presentations, she will …