This month's Mystery People blog includes my piece on the challenge of creating 'good' characters within a fascist intelligence unit. promotingcrime.blogspot.com/2024/12/good-f…

Jeffrey Flint's archaeological mysteries have topped the charts again this year. Here's what the series is all about monaghanfoss.com/my-books/

Seasons greetings to my writer friends, with the wish your ragged manuscript soon starts to look like a book. monaghanfoss.com/2024/12/17/its…

A few of the books that stood out this year monaghanfoss.com/2024/12/22/boo…

Happy New Year, but grateful to look back on a year of writing, archaeology and travel. monaghanfoss.com/2025/01/01/hap…

With the growth of AI answers online, I did a little experiment and the implications are informative for anyone with a public persona monaghanfoss.com/2025/01/12/wha…

Stressed, Twitterverse? Need to work on your book but have a holiday too? I tried a cruise for the first time monaghanfoss.com/2025/03/02/cru…

It's Conference Season! And here's the first write up monaghanfoss.com/2025/04/20/con…

Just back from CrimeFest Bristol. Here are my key take-aways from the event. monaghanfoss.com/2025/05/19/con…

Reflections on what it's really like working on an #archaeological dig monaghanfoss.com/2025/05/26/lif…

I'm speaking at three events during National Crime Reading Month #pickupapageturner monaghanfoss.com/2025/06/02/cri…

Are you a mystery or thriller fan in east Yorkshire? I'm giving free talks at Willerby Library at 10am on Thursday 19th, then North Bridlington at 2pm. #pickupapageturner The Crime Readers’ Association East Riding Libraries

Crime Reading Month was a whirl #pickupapageturner The Crime Readers’ Association East Riding Libraries monaghanfoss.com/2025/06/30/fes…

How to get published - no.14 in my series on writing non fiction monaghanfoss.com/2025/08/25/get…

No.15 in my series on writing non-fiction comes to the toughest bit of all - marketing monaghanfoss.com/2025/09/07/boo…

The second of three blogs on marketing your non-fiction book monaghanfoss.com/2025/09/12/twe…

A suitably Halloweenish image for my third and last blog on #marketing your #nonfiction book. monaghanfoss.com/2025/10/05/mar…

Perhaps the only piece you'll read on X today which has not been made up, scraped, cloned, created by AI or auto-scheduled. monaghanfoss.com/2025/10/13/the…

Death on the Dales Sedbergh Book Town Festival kicks off with Martin Edwards in conversation with MW Craven

Back from the second Death in the Dales in Sedbergh Sedbergh Book Town Festival monaghanfoss.com/2025/10/20/mor…