Author Q&A - Dates to be announced soon
Wendy H Jones
Award-Winning Scottish Crime Writer and Public Speaker, Wendy H Jones is the author of the bestselling DI Shona McKenzie Mysteries, Cass Claymore Investigates, Fergus and Flora Mysteries and a children’s picture book, Bertie the Buffalo. She is the President of the Scottish Association of Writers, and a writing and marketing coach helping writers and authors realise their literary dreams.
Wendy is delighted to announce that she is now being represented by Amy Collins of Tolcott Notch Literary Services who are handling translation, film and audio rights. They are also representing her for her new historical fiction series.
Faced with the horrific murder of two Father Christmases DI Shona is hurtled into the centre of another deadly spree by a killer who will stop at nothing. With no clues and a rising body count she is shocked to find herself not only investigating in Dundee but also, New Orleans and the Louisiana Bayou.
As the body count rises higher than the sticky Louisiana heat, Shona joins with her American colleagues to stop a serial killer in their tracks before Christmas is ruined forever. What, and who, could possibly link these cities other than one grisly murder after another.
Author Q&A - 9th July '23 - Watch Replay
Kate Baker
I wrote terrible holiday diaries as a child, which my husband gets me to read out loud for our entertainment.
I’ve always loved writing but didn’t make the time while the children were growing up. In 2018 I enrolled on courses, attended webinars and conferences, and joined writing groups.
I have written two novels, although the first is pushed firmly to the back of a drawer. The second - a story about falling in love with the wrong person; set in New York and Ireland in 1911/12 - was published on 28 Feb 2023, with the help of the people at THE BOOK GUILD!
I write when I’m not cleaning and repairing horse rugs or doing the farm accounts. Man of the Woods, my farming husband of twenty-seven years (and usually to be found with a chainsaw and surrounded by logs) is one of my biggest supporters.
While I'm planning another novel, I also write short stories and was delighted that Fairlight Books wanted to publish 'The Projectionist'.
It’s 1911 and, against her mother’s wishes, quiet New Yorker Emma dreams of winning the right to vote. She is sent away by her parents in the hope distance will curb her desire to be involved with the growing suffrage movement and told to spend time learning about where her grandparents came from.
Across the Atlantic – Queenstown, southern Ireland – hotelier Thomas dreams of being loved, even noticed, by his actress wife, Alice. On their wedding day, Alice’s father had assured him that adoration comes with time. It’s been eight years. But Alice has plans of her own and they certainly don’t include the fight for equality or her dull husband.
Emma’s arrival in Ireland leads her to discover family secrets and become involved in the Irish Women’s Suffrage Society in Cork. However, Emma’s path to suffrage was never meant to lead to a forbidden love affair…