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I dropped into Waterstone's in Newport on the Isle of Wight last week and was delighted to see Paul Armfield, the manager, who showed me the huge display of my crime novels in the store.  I saw the shelf display at the front of the store under 'Fiction That We Love' and was thrilled with that but then he took me further into the store and there was a complete panel dedicated to some of my books, including hard cover copies of the latest in the series featuring my flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton, Footsteps on the Shore . Along with this were copies of  Dead Man's Wharf , ( no.4) and Blood on the Sand ( No 5.) which is set on the Isle of Wight. My thrillers were also there, In Cold Daylight  and In For the Kill which is set on the Island. Pauline Rowson in a hug with Paul Armfield Manager of IOW Waterstone's I signed some copies while I was in the store and hope to return to Waterstone's to give a talk and book signing in September on the launch...

Had a great day on Saturday running the Crime Writing Workshop at Quay Arts Centre on the Isle of Wight. The delegates on the course were delightful and I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did. We covered many aspects of writing a crime novel from plotting to developing characters, dialogue, writing first drafts, revising and editing the novel.  It was also interesting to be back in the Quay Arts Centre , situated on the River Medina in the capital of the Isle of Wight, Newport. The building is a converted 19th Century brewery warehouse tastefully refurbished in 1997 by award winning architect Tony Fretton.  It has a wonderful shop displaying and selling local artists crafts, with some really interesting and unique pieces, and a  fantastic cafe  with really good prices, fair trade products and a great atmosphere. I feature the cafe in Quay Arts Centre in Blood on the Sand , a DI Andy Horton crime novel set primarily on the Isle o...