Tariffs
Option 1: £295.00 per person
Full weekend retreat, including accommodation x 2 nights, breakfast x 2 days, lunch x 2 days, 6 x workshops:
Option 2: £190.00 per person
Full weekend retreat without accommodation, including lunch x 2 days, 6 x workshops:
Option 3: Pay per day,
Day 1 - £90.00 per person;
Days 2 & 3 - £110.00 per person;
To attend the pitching session on Day 3 with Karen Sullivan writers must attend the workshops on Day 2.
Call 01461 800344 to book your place.
A £100 deposit will be required at the time of booking.
Tariffs
Option 1: £325.00 per person
Full weekend retreat, including accommodation x 2 nights, breakfast x 2 days, lunch x 2 days, 6 x workshops:
Option 2: £210.00 per person
Full weekend retreat without accommodation, including lunch x 2 days, 6 x workshops:
Option 3: Pay per day,
Day 1 - £100.00 per person;
Days 2 & 3 - £120.00 per person;
To attend the pitching session on Day 3 with Maisie, writers must attend the workshops on Day 2.
Call 01461 800344 to book your place.
A £100 deposit will be required at the time of booking.
To date 10 attendees of Crime & Publishment have gone on to sign publishing contracts.
They are, in order of publication; Graham Smith, Mike Craven, A.A. Dhand, Tess Makovesky, Jackie Baldwin, Lucy Cameron, Angela King, Les Morris, Morgen Bailey and Noelle Holten.
We're very proud of our successes and our fingers are permanently crossed in the hope that more of our attendees realise their dream and have their novel published.
Our Success Stories
Graham Smith is married with a young son. A time served joiner he has built bridges, dug drains and slated roofs to make ends meet. Since 2000 he has been the manager of a busy hotel and wedding venue near Gretna Green.
Graham is the organiser and host of Crime and Publishment as well as being the author of the DI Harry Evans stories which include; The Major Crimes Team Vol 1: Lines of Enquiry, Snatched from Home, The Major Crimes Team Vol 2: Matching the Evidence and I Know Your Secret.
His second series featuring Utah doorman, Jake Boulder, is published by Bloodhound Books and Watching the Bodies was published in April 2017 with the next novel in the series, The Kindred Killers due for release in September 2018.
Although he was born in Cumbria, Mike Craven grew up in the North East before running away to join the army as soon as he was sixteen. After training as an armourer for two and a half years (That's an army gunsmith to you and I) he spent the next ten travelling the world having fun. In 1995 he left the army and after a brief flirtation with close protection and bodyguarding, decided on a degree in social work with specialisms in criminology and substance misuse. In 1999 he joined Cumbria Probation Service as a probation officer, working his way up to chief officer grade. Sixteen years later he took the plunge and accepted redundancy to concentrate on writing full time, and now has entirely different motivations for trying to get inside the minds of criminals.
Mike's first DI Avison Fluke novel Born in a Burial Gown was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, The sequel Bodybreaker was published in May 2017
A.A. Dhand was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing.
The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired his Harry Virdee novels.
Liverpool lass Tess is now settled in the far north of England where she roams the fells with a brolly, dreaming up new stories and startling the occasional sheep.
Tess writes a distinctive brand of comedic noir and her short stories have darkened the pages of various anthologies and magazines, including Shotgun Honey, Pulp Metal Magazine, Out of the Gutter Online, Drag Noir (Fox Spirit), Rogue (Near to the Knuckle) and Locked and Loaded (One Eyed Press)
Her debut novel Raise the Blade was released by Caffeine Nights in 2016
Jackie Baldwin is a former solicitor specialising in family and criminal law. She now practises as a hypnotherapist in Dumfries. Married with two grown-up children and two dogs, she is an active member of Moffat Crime Writers' Group. Her debut crime novel, Dead Man's Prayer, was published by Harper Collins digital imprint, Killer Reads in September 2016.
Jackie can be found on Twitter at @JackieMBaldwin1 or on Facebook at Jackie Baldwin Author
Born in London and having lived in South Wales, Liverpool, York and Nottingham, Lucy currently lives in a shed at the bottom of her father's garden in Scotland where she wears thermals for warmth and writes by candlelight.
Lucy's interest in writing stems from her love of film and theatre and she is a keen scriptwriter who hopes to see her plays onstage following her scriptwriting debut as part of the National Theatre Scotland's 'Five Minute Theatre Show' project in 2014
She studied Fine Art at university which allowed her to get a glittering career in... food retail. Working sixty hours a week in retail management hampered Lucy's writing until a career break took her to Scotland.
Lucy's debut novel Night is Watching was released by Caffeine Nights in April 2017
Angela King has always loved words and writing. She was born in Wimbledon and always dreamed of becoming a writer, but I came from a long line of practical dreamers who need first to earn a living so went to Medway College of Art in Rochester, to study design, later working as assistant designer to Bruno Stern.
After a series of personal disasters including a terrible car crash for her husband Michael and a fire that burned down their home, Angela and Michael moved to Cumbria where they began working from home. In 2008, two of Angela's very close friends died, kicking her into action - if she didn't write her novel soon it might never be written. She joined a couple of local creative writing groups and finally allowed her imagination to run free.
In 2016 Angela had short stories published in three different anthologies: Dark Minds (Bloodhound Books), Happily Never After (C & P Writers) and Dot, Dot, Dot, (Wiza Words).
Les Morris is an author with a love of books and storytelling that he developed as a child.
After a career in the Royal Navy which spanned most of the 80s and 90s, he now lives in Cumbria, with his wife and children, and writes at every opportunity.
His short stories, 'Blood on Their Hands' and 'Cold Redemption' were published in Volumes 1 & 2 of Matt Hilton's series 'ACTION: Pulse Pounding Tales'.
Les was featured on the Thrillers, Killers and Chillers website with his story 'Meltdown' and also in the first C&P anthology, 'Happily Never After', with 'Fallout'.
Most recently, his story 'True Colours' appeared in a collection of prose and poetry entitled 'Liminal Time, Liminal Space'.
He is currently working on a new novel after his debut novel Desperate Ground was published by Bloodhound Books.
Based in Northamptonshire, England, 'Morgen with an e' is the author of numerous short story collections, a chick-lit novel (with crime and mystery novels in the works), a series of writer's block workbooks, articles, and she dabbles with poetry.
As well as being a freelance editor (who offers a free 1,000-word sample), she is a creative writing tutor for Northamptonshire County Council's Adult Learning (10-week evening and one-day Saturday classes). Morgen is also speaker of anything writing-related, panel moderator, and event tutor, and ran a two-hour editing course at the 2017 Crime & Publishment weekend.
Morgen is also a writing-related blogger who 'spotlights' authors, agents, editors, illustrators and publishers. Other content includes guest posts, flash fiction, poetry, and reviews (crime / chick lit novels, short stories and writing guides).
Everything she's involved is detailed on her blog http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com, and she can be found chatting away about all things literary on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tumblr.
You can also find her on https://www.youtube.com/user/MorgenBailey1 which is in its infancy but she is adding to.
You can view the full range of her eBooks (including some free flash fiction) at http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/books-mine
Noelle Holten is an award-winning blogger at www.crimebookjunkie.co.uk. She is the PR & Social Media Manager for Bookouture, a leading digital publisher in the UK, and a regular reviewer on the Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast. Noelle worked as a Senior Probation Officer for eighteen years, covering a variety of cases including those involving serious domestic abuse. She has three Hons BA's - Philosophy, Sociology (Crime & Deviance) and Community Justice - and a Masters in Criminology. Noelle's hobbies include reading, author-stalking and sharing the booklove via her blog. Dying in the Dark is her debut novel and the start of a new series featuring DC Maggie Jamieson.
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