This is a piece I wrote as a guest post for Linda Green’s book blog, Books of All Kinds, during the pubication blog tour for None So Blind. If you’d like to see the original post, including her review of None So Blind, you can find it here. Prior to writing None So Blind I […]

If you’ve come to this blog via the front page of my website, you’ll know that I was recently a guest at Llangwm Literary Festival. For those of you not familiar with the geography of West Wales, Llangwm is on the beautiful Cleddau estuary in Pembrokeshire.       It’s a small town. Probably smaller […]

Apologies for the lack of blog posts – my original intention was to copy, here, all the posts I put up on my Facebook Author page (Alis Hawkins Author) but, for one reason and another that just hasn’t been happening. I need to do better, so this is my mid-year resolution – update blog regularly. […]

After all the excitement of getting a new publishing deal, the nitty-gritty of working with a new team to get the second iteration of None So Blind out there has begun. When you sign on with any publisher (The Dome Press is my third) the marketing department will send you a questionnaire all about you, […]

I’ve been watching Bang – BBC Wales and S4C’s Port Talbot-set crime drama. You can see my review of it on the Wales Arts Review website here:  

At the recent Crickhowell Literary Festival where I was lucky enough to be on a panel of Crime Cymru authors, our interviewer, Matthew Hall (who writes as MR Hall) asked an interesting question. Is crime fiction essentially something that has sprung out of the chaos of the urban environment? And, if so, is that a […]

What a difference a year makes. Last year, I went to Crickhowell Literary Festival to hear one of my favourite crime writers, Matthew (MR) Hall interview Matt Johnson, a crime author I’d only previously known as a speaker at the Bristol Crimefest. This year, I’m going to be interviewed by Matthew Hall myself, as part […]

In lieu of a blog post on Crime Cymru, please follow the link and read my article on the Wales Arts Review website: http://www.walesartsreview.org/books-the-birth-of-crime-cymru/

I had the nicest time at the Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival. Got to meet some lovely people, including my Air BnB hosts (who entertained me spectacularly, especially on the last night when we sampled quite a lot of GnT!) and the three lovely authors – Shona Maclean, Elaine Thomson and Kaite Welsh – who […]

I’m delighted to be able to announce that I’ll be appearing at Cardiff Book Festival on the 24th of September with fellow Crime Cymru Author, Rosie Claverton. We’ll be talking about investigative duos and their popularity or otherwise. The thing  is, ever since Holmes and Watson, the detective double-act has captured readers’ imaginations but, these […]