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May.17.2013
I'm often asked how I come up with titles for my crime novels and the answer is sometimes with great difficulty. However some titles can come instantly, almost the moment the novel hits the page although that is rare. Dead Man's Wharf was one such case.
In Dead Man's Wharf, the fourth in the...
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May.10.2013
Isis Publishing, the World’s leading publisher of unabridged audio books, has bought the rights to three more crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged detective DI Andy Horton.
Isis has already published four unabridged audio books in the DI Horton mystery crime series: Deadly Waters, The...
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May.06.2013
I’ve got some great talks lined up for May, which I am very much looking forward to. May also sees me continuing to write the eleventh in the DI Andy Horton Mystery series, as yet untitled. The first draft is done but there's a great deal more to do yet before it's even half way decent.
May...
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May.02.2013
My mini tour of the North East of England was delightful and rewarding. Authors spend so much time working alone with only their characters for company that it is always good to get out and meet readers and that is just what I was doing in Hartlepool and Whitley Bay last week, and in...
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Apr.29.2013
Nearly a hundred and twenty people attended the first ever CSI Gateshead event at Gateshead Library on Thursday 25 April. Inspired by the CSI Portsmouth event, which I help to organise. The CSI Gateshead event was a huge success.
CSI Gateshead was modelled on the CSI Portsmouth event with some...
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Apr.16.2013
I was trying to recall how many times I have visited the London Book Fair and have to admit that I can't. I do however remember that the first time I visited the London Book Fair was in 1998. It's hard for me to believe that it was that long ago. My first impressions then were that...
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Apr.12.2013
Undercurrent, the ninth in the marine mystery crime series featuring the flawed and rugged detective DI Andy Horton will be published in America in hardcover and released internationally as an e book, available on all e readers including, Kindle, Kobo and Nook on 1 May 2013.
Undercurrent was...
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Apr.01.2013
Footsteps on the Shore, the sixth in the DI Andy Horton series, was published in Large Print on 28 March by Severn House Publishers in the UK and will be published in Large Print in the USA on 30 May 2013. It is already available as an e book on Kindle, Kobo and Nook, in paperback and...
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Mar.25.2013
Jeffery Deaver and Peter James are lined up to take part in this year’s Crimefest and I'm delighted to be there with them.
Peter James and Pauline Rowson - we both look a bit sozzled! CrimeFest 2011
I haven't met Jeffrey Deaver but I am sure that his Thriller Writing Seminar as part of the...
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Mar.19.2013
On Saturday night I appeared on the Arts and Culture Show on Voice FM talking to the radio presenter Xan Phillips about my marine mystery crime novels, the inspiration behind my flawed and rugged detective DI Andy Horton, the latest in the Horton series, Undercurrent and the importance of...
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Mar.12.2013
I am appearing at Crimefest this year on a panel with fellow crime authors Ann Cleeves, Kate Ellis, J.C. Martin and Kerry Wilkinson on 31 May.
Ann Cleeves and Pauline Rowson at CSI Portsmouth 2012
Crimefest is a crime fiction convention which follows the format of US conventions and...
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Mar.06.2013
I'm delighted that the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard is to be the new venue for the popular one day event, CSI Portsmouth 2013, part of Portsmouth BookFest to be held on Saturday 2 November.
CSI Portsmouth 2013 will be held in the Princess Royal Gallery at the...
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Feb.27.2013
I had a great time speaking to the lovely members of the Holbury and Fawley U3A on Tuesday 26 February. They made me very welcome and were a superb audience. I talked about how I write my DI Andy Horton marine mysteries and my thrillers.
I'm pleased to say that I will be talking at...
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Feb.21.2013
This week I visited one of the locations featured in the new DI Andy Horton mystery crime novel, Undercurrent, to thank Dr Gordon Watson of the Institute of Marine Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth University for his assistance with my research for the novel. It was a glorious...
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Feb.12.2013
At the weekend I finished writing DI Andy Horton number ten. It's always a scary moment when I press 'send' on the keyboard and a new crime novel wings its way through the ether to my publisher, Severn House. I wonder could I have done better? Should I have rephrased something or added or...
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About Pauline
Hailed in the USA as the new Ed McBain and with her writing compared to Joseph Wambaugh, Pauline Rowson is a British crime author with International sales and a growing following of fans of her fictional flawed and rugged detective, DI Andy Horton...
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Causes Pauline Rowson Supports
Fire Fighters Benevolent Fund, http://www.firefighterscharity.org.uk/text.asp?PageID=2 Motor Neurone's Disease Association...
Pauline’s Favorite Books
Too many to mention but anything by Robert Goddard and Reginald Hill as well as the Golden Age of Crime novels.