Mark McCrum in the new The Society of Authors journal writes a v amusing article relishing 1 * Amazon reviews. As I've suggested before there really does need to be a compendium of the best of these, entitled "Not What I Was Expecting."

Arriving this week - your Autumn edition of The Author, with features from KingCon™ 👑, Mukahang limbu, Jen Stout, @barnontherun, Julian Baggini, @damian_barr, Mark McCrum, Kate Tough, Selina Mills and more. 🗳️Ballots inside Ed. James McConnachie 🎨 Lesja Chernish

I rarely recommend authors on here other than Gina Kirkham which you have to read prunella pearce mysteries series btw. But if you haven't read Mark McCrum you really really must. Just started ghosted and its fantastic! #BookTwitter #BooksWorthReading

Brendan May I'm just gonna leave this here....

Adam Albury finds himself at a funeral in his local church. Scanning the aisles and seeing his family and friends dressed in black, he’s shocked to learn the service is for him. He soon realises he’s been murdered. GHOSTED by Mark McCrum Bloodhound Books now out! 📚 #murdermystery

A huge happy book birthday to Mark McCrum 🥳 Ghosted is out today. A mystery with, funnily enough, a ghost and loads of dark humour. Perfect for spooky season. Loved working on this. #booktwt #BooksWorthReading #spookymonth

Today I'm posting New UK Book Releases: 2023 Week #44 This week I'm featuring books by: 💜 Sarra Manning 💜 Mark McCrum 💜 Julia Jean North 💜 Nicole Trope 💜 Graham Smith (G.N.Smith) Author 💜 T J Emerson Take a look: jennylousbookreviews.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/new… #BookTwitter #BookBlogger #NewBooks

Thrilled to say Ghosted is now number 19 in Amazon’s ‘Humorous Dark Comedy’, an intriguing category that can only mean it’s twice as funny.

#ImACeleb If voting was the other way round (ie vote for who you dislike) Frankie would still be there. He was just too low profile.

Mystery fans get ready to ROCK as Francis Meadowes' latest case takes him on tour! 🎸🔎 In 'Murder on Tour' by Mark McCrum a novice detective joins a rock star’s entourage to follow a trail of sex, drugs, and suspicious deaths 🤔 🔗 geni.us/murderontour

What could be better than a trilogy?

Looking forward to publication of this, later this month. Everything I know about the world of pop stars and touring, in a contemporary setting of course!

Everything I know about the dark secrets of the music industry…

Comes highly recommended by me.

Mark McCrum murder on tour best francis boom by far. Phenomenal!

Why do Direct Line ask you to give them your policy number, full name etc, laboriously and boringly, to a machine that often fails to understand you, only to ask for all the same info when you finally get a human being?

Talking about the challenges and benefits of genre with a bunch of other writers from the RLF: rlf.org.uk/posts/my-true-…

How I got into ghostwriting and why: rlf.org.uk/posts/the-invi…

RIP the great #TimothyWest. As well as everything else he did, his renditions of Trollope’s major novels are totally wonderful. Start with The Warden, you are in for a treat…