Last month it was an online romance festival, and now for March there's an online crime festival.
It's being run by event teams from Waterstones, and the HarperCollins imprint, Killer Reads, and takes place Friday 13th March from 2pm, to Saturday 14th March at 8pm.
You can sign up free on their eventbrite page, and that will ensure that you'll get all the details via email to your inbox.
The festival will be a mix of live and virtual events. The live part comes via a number of Waterstones branches that will be holding events with crime authors, so if you're near a Waterstones branch then check with them to see if they're hosting any events.
A few of the branches involved: Liverpool, Brighton, Plymouth Drake Circus, Edinburgh West End, and Romford.
Apparently, Ian Rankin will be on a Twitter Q&A.
The virtual events will be taking place on Facebook, Twitter, and on the Killer reads blog. You can find their blog by going to this page.
On Twitter follow @HarperCollinsUK, and most Waterstones branches have their own twitter accounts so you should be able to find your local branch.
But for full details of all events you need to sign up via eventbrite, and as everything starts Friday, sign up as soon as you can so you can plan your time.
If it is anything like the romance festival was, you'll be torn between events, wanting to do everything, but having to make decisions on which you choose- or madly keyboard hopping between Facebook and Twitter!
Look out for the festival hashtag: #KILLERFEST15
Enjoy the experience...
Carol Bevitt's blog on her writing and inspirations, along with occasional literature related news...
Sunday 8 March 2015
Thursday 5 March 2015
Pinterest at Last...
Hope everyone is well.
It's been taking me longer than usual to get over this latest bug, and actually I think it was a slight bout of flu - considering how worn-out it's left me.
Having lost a couple of weeks writing time I now need to catch up, so I'm going to have to be very strict with getting back to the work in progress.
The end of last week wasn't totally wasted though, as I finally got around to doing something with Pinterest.
I'd actually signed up toward the end of last year, but hadn't had time to actually learn how to do anything. Once I understood the mechanics of it, it isn't that difficult.
(Though there's a lot I haven't yet explored.)
I've created a few boards, begun to follow boards, and other writers I know. Pop over to look at my boards if you are interested.
If you've not looked into Pinterest before, I'd describe it as an online scrapbook, but you aren't restricted to just looking at your own version...
My creative mind does work better with visual stimuli, but of course if I saved every link that triggered something it would be pages and pages long. :D
So now I can assign it to one of my boards- or create a new one.
You can even put together a private board that only you can see, or allow certain people to see it too.
My favourite is my Costume board. There are so many sources of costume and accessories around, so I'm probably adding to that every day because I see something in passing. I haven't just limited it to 18th or 19th century items, but included early 20th century pieces too.
No doubt I will eventually discover why I felt the need to make a board about chocolate; types of, the history of and pictures of chocolate in lots of forms. :D
A couple of weeks ago, on her blog, Rosemary Gemmell was talking about how she uses Pinterest, and how her works in progress benefit from its use. Read her recent post over on her Reading and Writing blog.
Pinterest seems to have developed quite a bit since it first started, and it now has a useful place in social media.
If you're on Pinterest do let me know, and I'd enjoy hearing what you like about it...
It's been taking me longer than usual to get over this latest bug, and actually I think it was a slight bout of flu - considering how worn-out it's left me.
Having lost a couple of weeks writing time I now need to catch up, so I'm going to have to be very strict with getting back to the work in progress.
The end of last week wasn't totally wasted though, as I finally got around to doing something with Pinterest.
I'd actually signed up toward the end of last year, but hadn't had time to actually learn how to do anything. Once I understood the mechanics of it, it isn't that difficult.
(Though there's a lot I haven't yet explored.)
I've created a few boards, begun to follow boards, and other writers I know. Pop over to look at my boards if you are interested.
If you've not looked into Pinterest before, I'd describe it as an online scrapbook, but you aren't restricted to just looking at your own version...
My creative mind does work better with visual stimuli, but of course if I saved every link that triggered something it would be pages and pages long. :D
So now I can assign it to one of my boards- or create a new one.
You can even put together a private board that only you can see, or allow certain people to see it too.
My favourite is my Costume board. There are so many sources of costume and accessories around, so I'm probably adding to that every day because I see something in passing. I haven't just limited it to 18th or 19th century items, but included early 20th century pieces too.
No doubt I will eventually discover why I felt the need to make a board about chocolate; types of, the history of and pictures of chocolate in lots of forms. :D
A couple of weeks ago, on her blog, Rosemary Gemmell was talking about how she uses Pinterest, and how her works in progress benefit from its use. Read her recent post over on her Reading and Writing blog.
Pinterest seems to have developed quite a bit since it first started, and it now has a useful place in social media.
If you're on Pinterest do let me know, and I'd enjoy hearing what you like about it...
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