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The Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris series (The Book Folks, a Joffe Books company) The first nine novels in John Dean’s Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris series have been published in a special Kindle e-book boxset for just 99p – you can’t get a better offer than that and it’s already a best-seller. Published by…
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I have started a Handy Hints section on the Golden Rules of Writing, accessed on the left hand side of the home page, including some from crime writer Elemore Leonard (pictured here), novelist George Orwell, children’s writer Mike Watson and myself. They are not the only golden rule out there, of course, and I would…
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A major report into the global book trade has revealed that fiction revenues continued to increase in 2024. The results of research conducted for the report released each year by GfK Entertainment and NielsenIQ BookData suggest that the rising cost of books means that, although some territories have seen sales fall, the financial effect on…
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I recently chaired a ‘meet-the-authors’ event at the excellent Kirkcudbright Book Week, which took place in the south-west Scotland town near which I live. It featured crime writers May Rinaldi and David Haigh and finished with a question and answer session in which we were asked if we had to give one piece of advice…
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As I move into the second half of writing a novel – as has happened with my latest in the Jack Harris series – my mindset changes. Up to now, I have worked steadily – some would say slowly – writing, rewriting, editing, re-editing – but now that I am 27,000 words in, or 23,000…
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The boxset of my first seven DCI John Blizzard crime novels to be published by The Book Folks continues to ride high in the Amazon bestseller charts sixteen months after it was launched, particularly those charts that feature anthologies. That’s hardly surprising; you’ll not get much better offers than the one represented by the boxset,…
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Book reviewer Lars Walker, of Brandywine Books, has been steadily working his way through my DCI Jack Harris novels, published by The Book Folks, for which I thank him. He’s an honest reviewer who says what he likes and what he does not like and I am pleased to report that so far the verdict…
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Knowing that I was developing a new website, I asked my publisher The Book Folks how many of my crime novels have been read via Amazon, either purchased as ebooks, paperbacks or hardbacks or enjoyed the Kindle library. Add it all up and 329,000 books have been read. Thank you everyone who supports me. It…
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Crime novelist and creative writing tutor John Dean, who is based in Dumfries and Galloway, has re-launched his online Crime Fiction Course. John, author of 25 crime novels and published by London-based The Book Folks, is the creator of DCI John Blizzard and DCI Jack Harris. The online course, which runs in eight parts and…
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John is continuing to work with his daughter Laura, a skilled editor and manuscript assessor who has worked on a freelance basis for several publishing companies and individual authors to provide manuscript assessments, editing and proofing. The work has helped a number of writers to secure their first publishing contracts. Should you be interested in…
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