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These photographs were taken during the afternoon session at the highly successful Crime and the City CSI Portsmouth event held on Saturday 6 November at John Pounds Community Centre as part of Portsmouth Bookfest, organised by the Hayling Island Bookshop and Portsmouth City Libraries. Many thanks again to all who participated and helped to make this day so enjoyable.  Thanks also to Cheryl Buggy, Station Director of Express FM for acting as our interviewer and moderator, to Portsmouth City Council for their support and to the local newspaper The News and Portsmouth Live TV   for the publicity.  Most of all thanks to the wonderful audiences for joining us. I'm already planning for CSI Portsmouth Fact meets Fiction in Crime and the City 2011 as part of next year's Portsmouth Bookfest! Watch this space... Audience at Crime and the City CSI Portsmouth waiting eagerly for it to begin The panel from left to right:  Crime authors - Graham Hurl...

I am delighted to say that it was a great event and highly successful. Over 200 people packed the hall at John Pounds Community Centre in Portsmouth on Saturday 6 November to hear crime fiction authors pitch their wits against police and forensic experts in this unique event the first ever Crime and the City CSI Portsmouth held as part of Portsmouth Bookfest. The day was expertly chaired by experienced broadcaster and station director of Express FM , Cheryl Buggy and the event was organised by the Hayling Island Bookshop who also provided a mobile bookshop on the day and the Portsmouth Library Service. My thanks to them and to everyone who gave up their time to take part in this unique and highly enjoyable event including all the panel guests, the fingerprinting unit of Hampshire Constabulary, the library staff and volunteers. I thought I'd let the photographs from the day speak for themselves in two instalments - today photographs from the morning s...

I was made very welcome at the Southern region of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists on 22 October where I gave a talk on how I write, research and market my marine mystery crime novels and thrillers. Pauline Rowson talking to some of the members of the Southern region of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists What a lovely group of people and I was delighted to see that popular saga author Dee Williams , whom I've appeared with at a few signings was in the audience, along with crime writer, Peter Lovesey , a prolific writer with a string of awards including the Cartier Diamond Dagger for his career in crime writing and whose novels have been dramatised on television.  I'm appearing with Peter Lovesey at Crime & the City, CSI Portsmouth event on 6 November as part of Portsmouth Bookfest, and I'm very much looking forward to it. Peter Lovesey and Pauline Rowson Pauline Rowson and Dee Williams getting ready to have their phot...

Yes, I've gone underground, not for the purpose of gathering material for a new thriller or an Inspector Andy Horton crime novel. Neither have I decided to take up busking or begging for a living, but because I'm helping to promote  Portsmouth Bookfest . And if you're thinking that I might be walking the platforms with a sandwich board strapped to me then sorry to disappoint (although Colin at the Hayling Island Bookshop , organiser of the Portsmouth Bookfest would probably have suggested it if I'd given him half the chance).  I won't be there physically but if you cast your eyes over the posters near the main ticket office at Waterloo Underground this is what you will see. Sorry, didn't mean to frighten the horses.  Yes, it's my mugshot there in amongst other authors taking part in the Portsmouth Bookfest. I am in the middle top row.  Now your job is to identify and name all the other authors whose photographs are on the poster, in the proper order f...

Yes, the PR machine is now in full swing and the word is spreading about the forthcoming Portsmouth Bookfest (23 October - 14 November) and also for my own event Crime & the City - CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 6 November, where I will be joined by crime authors; Simon Brett, Graham Hurley, Peter Lovesey and June Hampson as well as experts from the Scenes of Crime, fingerprinting bureau and forensic specialists from Portsmouth University. Posters are going up at bustops around Portsmouth, the programmes are being distributed and what's more posters are also going up at Waterloo and Victoria railway stations in London. So exciting. I might have to make a special trip to London to see my name up there in lights... OK, so not actually in lights... and maybe no one will notice anyway... but hey, it's still exciting! I've created a new dedicated page on this blog about the Portsmouth Bookfest, Crime & the City, CSI Portsmouth event where you can read all about this and...

I'm off to a meeting with Portsmouth Library and the Hayling Island Bookshop this morning, organisers of the Portsmouth Bookfest, to discuss progress on the Crime and the City- CSI Portsmouth event on Saturday 6 November where I will be appearing with fellow crime writers Graham Hurley, Simon Brett, June Hampson and Peter Lovesey, along with experts from the Scenes of Crime, fingerprinting bureau and forensic psychologists. Everything seems to be going well, except that the venue has had to change from Portsmouth Library to the John Pounds Community Centre in Queen Street, Portsmouth, because of vandalism caused to the Central Library some weeks ago, when someone deliberately left the taps on in the public toilets and blocked all the sinks overnight causing extensive flooding. The tickets are now on sale for the event and posters have gone up certainly in the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth where my sister works for Nauticalia because she rang on Friday to say she'd see...

Portsmouth BookFest is a new festival to promote reading for pleasure and enthusiasm for literature in the city of Portsmouth. It's being held between 26 October and 13 November, and I'm delighted and honoured to be part of it.  I'm in great company too. Appearing at the Portsmouth Bookfest is saga writer Josephine Cox, children's author Jacqueline Wilson, SAS hero and author Chris Ryan to name but a few. My own special event is called  Crime and the City CSI Portsmouth and is being held on Saturday 6 November . Crime and the City - CSI Portsmouth - 6 November 2010 I will be joined by forensic and crime scene experts from the Police and University and fellow crime writers Peter Lovesey, Graham Hurley, Simon Brett, and June Hampson in a lively panel debate and Q & A session chaired by broadcaster, Cheryl Buggy, station director of Express FM.   There will even be a chance to have your fingerprints taken and to take away as a keepsake and to ask auth...