by Natalie Conyer | Aug 21, 2020 | Natalie Conyer
What if Sherlock Holmes were Polish? What if he and/or John Watson were Indian or Irish or Australian or Japanese? How would their worlds look if one or both was from a completely different background? That’s the brief I was given when I was asked to contribute...
by Natalie Conyer | Aug 11, 2020 | Natalie Conyer
This is one of a series of joint posts in the She Said/She Said series, in which Atlin Merrick and I muse on writing topics. Atlin is publisher of Improbable Press and author of The Night They Met and The Day They Met. You can find the post here:...
by Natalie Conyer | Jul 16, 2020 | Natalie Conyer
I’m delighted that Present Tense has made it to the shortlist of this year’s Davitt Crime Fiction Awards – and in such great company. Here’s the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP9S9rU_-lw&feature=youtu.be...
by Natalie Conyer | Jul 9, 2020 | Natalie Conyer
This is the last of three blogs on reading. Does where you read a book affect your understanding of it? I ask because of a conversation I had with a friend. We were discussing books, and I said I was reading Olive Kitteridge. She said she’d read it but hadn’t enjoyed...
by Natalie Conyer | Jun 29, 2020 | Natalie Conyer
Some of the world’s best crime writers (among them Lee Child, Val McDermid, Sara Paretsky) talk about their detectives – and how hard it is to kill them off....