This will be a right laugh👇🏻

Hold on to your chapeaux, because this news is a beezer! It’s a stoatir, so it is!

Our Glasgow event with Alan Cumming & @ForbesMasson on 8 Aug has been upgraded to the Royal Concert Hall's main auditorium and a new wave of tickets are now available:

🎟️ tickets.glasgowlife.org.uk/33194/33273

I will be speaking with James O'Brien next month at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall as part of Aye Write. Delighted to have been asked.
For tickets: tinyurl.com/2zddf8cu

I'm shocked to realise that I've never done a book event in Glasgow. That's to be remedied in June, courtesy of Aye Write. Please do come along if you can.
glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/you-ar…

Some exciting book post this morning! Been looking forward to the latest from Chris Brookmyre since I heard the pitch of Agatha Christie meets Michael Connelly!

Absolutely shocking customer service from Sage Appliances just ignoring repeated emails even when escalated to ‘Official complaint’ as advised.

⭐️ BLOODY SCOTLAND 2024 PRIZES OPEN! The McIlvanney Prize & the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize are officially open for submissions! 🙌🏽 The winner of The McIlvanney Prize will receive £1k and winner of Bloody Scotland Debut Prize will receive £500. Visit 👉🏾 buff.ly/3vUjLSr

Keep seeing people talking about 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' and 'making tough choices' re arts spending. All this does is underline how the arts are seen as a luxury, which is the essence of problem. If a culture doesn't value its arts, it won't just be the arts that atrophy.

Oh my goodness. Bloody Scotland 2022 vs 2023. Thanks for all the nice comments over the weekend. #fivestonedown #stayontrack 😉

…and we’re off! Full house for Alex Gray’s New Crimes - superb debuts from Alex Hay Fulton Ross Jo Callaghan Martin Griffin Bloody Scotland

Join host Clive Anderson and guests for a criminally good mix of conversation, music and comedy from Bloody Scotland in #Stirling ! Grab your tickets here: bbc.in/3s82yD8

Fantastic to see a full house for the Aye Write and University of Glasgow event with Diana Gabaldon and Chris Brookmyre talking about Outlander and much more!

📚 THE McILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST – HEATHER DARWENT

The Things We Do To Our Friends is a Sunday Times bestselling deliciously dark, intoxicating tale of feminist revenge, toxic friendships, and deadly secrets.

Good luck to all of the McIlvanney Prize Longlist authors this year!

THE McILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST
D. V. BISHOP

We were delighted D. V. Bishop won the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect competition in 2018 and is now longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023. Which books have you read on the longlist?

Good luck to all of the authors this year!

With two former Pitch Perfect winners on the McIlvanney Prize longlist this year, I'd say this is definitely worth a go...👇👇👇

Make sure to take time for a cuppa this weekend and browse the Bloody Scotland programme out now...

15-17 September 2023, Stirling

Explore what’s on 👉 buff.ly/3NPwkDB

Tickets 👉 buff.ly/2JcC3oz

#BloodyScotland #CrimeWriting #Festival

Outlander fans note!👇🏻👇🏻

One of my favourite things about
Bloody Scotland
- looking forward to the class of ‘23👇🏻👇🏻

LOOK OVER THERE! This year’s Bloody Scotland programme is OUT! Tickets here: bloodyscotland.com/events

And congratulations to the authors longlisted for The McIlvanney Prize this year 👇