Writing Crime Fiction

A seminar and workshop with best-selling crime authors Allan Guthrie and Stuart MacBride

Orkney Library & Archive, Kirkwall, 2pm, Saturday 6th March, free

Writers in Orkney have an opportunity to develop their skills as crime writers in a seminar / workshop with two of Scotland's finest crime writers - Stuart MacBride and Allan Guthrie.
Allan's workshop will give hands-on examples and insight into how to be published as a crime writer in the current market, and Stuart's focuses on the importance of dynamic plotting using mind-mapping and other techniques.
The workshops and seminars are primarily aimed at writers wishing to develop their skills in writing for the successful and growing market for crime fiction - in which Scotland is a global leader - but they are also of great use to writers of fiction in general.
Allan Guthrie was born in Orkney, but has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life. His first novel, Two-Way Split, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and went on to win the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel Of The Year. His second novel, Kiss Her Goodbye, was nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards.
His third novel, Hard Man, is the winner of the inaugural Spinetingler award for Best Novel — New Voice. Allan is also the author of Kill Clock, a novella for emergent adult readers. His fourth novel, Savage Night, is out now.
When not writing, Allan Guthrie is a leading specialist crime fiction literary agent working with Jenny Brown Associates, Edinburgh.
Stuart MacBride is the author of such contemporary crime classics as 'Cold Granite' and 'Dying Light'. His work has received much critical acclaim, including being described as bring like 'Ian Rankin on speed' and, by Mark Billingham as being 'Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order by a writer whose dark star is most definitely on the rise'.
Stuart MacBride lives in Aberdeen.

For further event details, please contact HI~Arts on 01463 717091 or e-mail Peter Urpeth at: peter@hi-arts.co.uk

Kate Walker

Writing Romance Fiction

with international best-selling romance fiction author Kate Walker

7.30pm Thursday 25th March 2010 - Royal Highland Hotel, Inverness: £5

2pm Saturday 27th March 2010 - MacPhail Centre, Ullapool: £5

book your ticket online at thebooth: www.thebooth.co.uk

An industry focus seminar that's tailored for writers - published or unpublished - writing or wanting to write romance fiction.

The seminar will focus on current trends in the buoyant international romance fiction market and, based on Kate Walker's best-selling book '12 Point Guide to Writing Romance', the do's and don'ts of writing romance fiction.

This seminar is simply a must for anyone wanting to enter the highly specialised field of romance fiction.

Kate Walker is an international best-selling author of romance fiction currently celebrating 25 years of publishing 'intensely sensual romance with heart', and with more than 56 titles published or accepted and awaiting publication principally for Mills and Boon. Her current best-seller 'The Konstantos Marriage Demand' (Mills and Boon Modern) is a Times newspaper 'Romantic Top Pick'.

Apart from her own novels, Kate Walker is a leading writer on romance fiction itself having written three important guides on writing romance fiction.

For further biographical details and for Kate's books:
http://www.kate-walker.com/index.html

The romance fiction seminars will last for approx. two hours and we will provide plenty of time for Q&As at the end of Kate's presentation.
Tickets are £5 and must be pre-booked through thebooth - or telephone 01463 717091. Tickets cannot be refunded. A very small number of tickets may be available on the door at each event but entry to what is going to be a very popular seminar series cannot be guaranteed unless pre-booked.