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Tomorrow I will be on Express FM (93.7FM) at 1.30pm on the Terry In The Afternoon Show which runs Monday toThursday 1pm to 4pm, talking about the Young Crime Writers Competition and urging young people under the age of 18 to get their entries in.  The closing date is 18 February, so not long now to write a short crime story of 1,000 words or under.  There are more details about the competition on my web site and a handy checklist on How to write a crime story . I'll also be at a meeting in the morning with a representative from Portsmouth Library and the owners of The Hayling Island Bookshop talking about the programme for this years CSI Portsmouth event which has been pencilled in for Saturday 5 November.  Last year's event was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyable  and the theme will continue this year where crime fact meets crime fiction. You can read details of last year's events here on this blog or visit my web site to see more information and ph...

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...

Meanwhile it's Crime & the City, CSI Portsmouth today. I'll be joining top British crime writers, Simon Brett, Peter Lovesey, Graham Hurley and June Hampson along with forensic experts, police and SOCO at this event at John Pounds Community Centre, Portsmouth. Tickets are available on the door for the morning session only. Afternoon session sold out.  I'll be posting photographs from this event here next week. Plus a link to my interview yesterday on Portsmouth Live TV.

One more day to go before the  Crime and the City CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 6 November at the John Pounds Community Centre in Queens Street, Portsmouth. The event is part of Portsmouth Bookfest and it is looking good. Tickets have sold out for the afternoon session which features crime authors: Graham Hurley, Peter Lovesey and Pauline Rowson (yes, me) along with police and forensic experts, but there are still some tickets left for the morning session 10 am to 12 noon, which features crime authors: Simon Brett, June Hampson and Pauline Rowson (I get to do it twice), along with police and forensic experts. Yesterday I was interviewed on Express FM and today I will be on Portsmouth Live TV  at 5pm. There should also be an article about me and the event in The News. I bet you'll be glad when I shut up about this event!  But it won't be yet, because hopefully there will be photographs from the event to post next week. So if you want to come along to Crime a...

A reporter from the local newspaper, The News , is coming today to interview me for an article which will appear in Friday's newspaper ahead of the Crime and the City CSI Portsmouth event in which I'm participating on Saturday 6 November along with fellow crime writers, Graham Hurley, Peter Lovesey, Simon Brett and June Hampson. On the panel we will be joined by police and forensic experts and the fingerprinting bureau will also be in attendance.  Delegates can have their fingerprints taken and pressed into a keyring to take away. A novel idea!  The event, which is broken down into two sessions (morning and afternoon) is selling extremely well, and I think the afternoon session has almost sold out. So if you want to come along you'd better book soon.  Details are on the page to the left of this blog or on my official web site . To get back to the reporter. She is also bringing a photographer, which is the worse part of the interview, it's always a dilemm...

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...

Here is an extract from the interview I did with Tony Smith of Angel Radio about a unique event where I and four of my fellow international crime authors will join police, CSI, forensic and fingerprinting experts in Crime and the City, CSI Portsmouth on Saturday 6 November at the John Pounds Centre, Portsmouth. Fiction meets fact at this lively, entertaining event; come for the morning session, the afternoon session or both. Tickets on sale from 023 9268 8037 or visit my official web site for more details. It's part of Portsmouth Bookfest organised by the Hayling Island Bookshop and Portsmouth City Council.

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 Central Library will be hosting the first ever Crime and the City (CSI Portsmouth) event on Saturday 6 November. Four of my fellow crime writers will join me and experts from Hampshire Constabulary and The International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology to discuss crime fiction and fact in a unique event, as part of the Portsmouth Book fest. More to follow but I can annouce that joining me, Pauline Rowson will be  Simon Brett , June Hampson , Peter Lovesey and Graham Hurley. On the expert side will be DS Martin Chudley, in charge of the Crime Scene Investigation team for Hampshire Constabulary and Jane Aston and her team from the Fingerprinting Bureau. With them will be Dr Claire Nee, Director of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology at Portsmouth University, an expert in forensic psychology, and Paul Smith, an expert in Crime Scenes. A mobile bookshop will be provided by the Hayling Island Bookshop. It looks like...