Bywater News
Val in Curve and HuffPo
Curve features an article with Val McDermid, who describes her childhood growing up in a mining community. The interview coincides with publication of A Darker Domain featuring a new character, DI Karen Pirie “as fascinating and nuanced as any McDermid character yet”.
Interview with Val McDermid | Women in Hollywood
For an interview to tie in with last month’s broadcast of A Place of Execution, Women and Hollywood, Val was asked once again about violence — and women writing about violence. (And yes, she admits to getting pretty frustrated about being misquoted and misinterpreted.)
Bywater Books in Provincetown
As regular readers will know, Bywater Books teamed up with Kate Clinton to host the first annual Laugh Out Loud panel, and the film is now up on the web.
Video: Bywater Books Booksigning at Womencrafts
A short clip of Bywater authors Cynn, Z, Marcia, Mari, Bett, and Marianne at a booksigning at Womecrafts in Provincetown.
Val McDermid on Open Book – Neglected Classics
Val McDermid appeared on Open Book on BBC Radio 4. The program invited 10 authors to champion a book they believe has been unfairly neglected. Listeners were invited to listen to all 10 nominations and then choose the book they feel deserves to be remembered; the...
Val McDermid’s “A Place of Execution” on PBS
An adaptation of Val’s thriller A Place of Execution was shown, in two parts, on PBS last November.
Marcia Finical Wins a Goldie
Many congratulations to Marcia Finical: with Last Chance at the Lost and Found, she won a “Goldie” for best General Dramatic Fiction from the Golden Crown Literary Society.
Dykewomon wins Duggins Award
Many congratulations to Elana Dykewomon: with Risk, her recently published novel, she won this year’s James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize, awarded by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.
Review: Jill Malone | Jane and Jane
It is rare to find an author who knows how to write books that truly booby-trap her readers — books that start out feeling like a trip to the carnival on a sunny summer day, and take a left turn at the Tilt-a-Whirl and enter a dark place filled with oddly-shaped mirrors and distant, eerie peals of laughter.
BlogAsheville | Profile: Cynn Chadwick
Like any university professor, UNC-Asheville‘s Cynn Chadwick holds an advanced degree. But unlike most, she flunked out of college on her first try. “Instead of going to classes,” she says, “I used to go to the track and play the ponies with my college guidance counselor.