Author interviews – Fiona Veitch Smith https://fiona.veitchsmith.com Author Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:03:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Writers’ Narrative Magazine – featured author https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2025/02/writers-narrative-magazine-featured-author/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writers-narrative-magazine-featured-author https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2025/02/writers-narrative-magazine-featured-author/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:03:24 +0000 https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/?p=2088 Continue Reading →]]>

I’m honoured to be the featured author in this month’s Writer’s Narrative Magazine discussing all things historical fiction – and there are reviews of A Front-Page Murder and The Penford Manor Murders (so one each for Poppy and Clara!). It’s a chock-full edition with far more than just little old me. If you don’t already subscribe, do so. It’s free! You can read it here.

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FREE ONLINE EVENT! Murderous Inspirations: Crime Novels that Inspire Crime Writers will take place on 4 June from 7-8pm. An online session co-hosted by Cambridge University Library and The Crime Writers’ Association. Crime writers Fiona Veitch Smith, Abir Mukherjee and Nadine Matheson will discuss seminal crime novels Murder Must Advertise, Gorky Park and Prime Suspect. We’ll be kept in line by the king of crime critics Barry Forshaw.

I’ll be going in to bat for Murder Must Advertise (a cricket reference for those who’ve read the book!) and talking about how Dorothy L. Sayers has influenced my own writing.

FREE tickets are available now – via https://linktr.ee/cambridgeuniversitylibrary

]]> https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2024/05/murderous-inspirations-with-cambridge-university-library-the-cwa/feed/ 0 Writers in Conversation: Ruth Everson & Fiona Veitch Smith https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2021/05/writers-in-conversation-ruth-everson-fiona-veitch-smith/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writers-in-conversation-ruth-everson-fiona-veitch-smith https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2021/05/writers-in-conversation-ruth-everson-fiona-veitch-smith/#respond Mon, 17 May 2021 13:24:16 +0000 http://fiona.veitchsmith.com/?p=1755 Continue Reading →]]> My former high school English teacher Ruth Everson and I will be chatting in a FREE online event about our life and writing. Ruth is now an internationally renowned poet and I am a novelist. Back then she was an inspiring young teacher and I was, well … join us to find out.

27 May. 7pm UK time.

Register here for your free ticket to this online event

 

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I’m going to be joining a stellar line-up of crime writers, publishers and agents in the Pro-Writing Aid Crime Writer’s Week on 19 – 23 April. Alongside the likes of Peter James, Leigh Russell, Karin Slaughter and Ian Rankin, I’ll be sharing my experience of crime writing in a session on research for historical mysteries. I will be looking at how to create an authentic historical word. Do join me at 3pm (UK time) on Wednesday 21st April for a totally FREE session. And of course, dip in and out of any and all of the other talks and workshops taking place that week. Visit www.prowritingaid.com/crimeweek to sign up. Full details below.

]]> https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2021/04/crime-writing-week/feed/ 0 What did Golden Age detective fiction do for us? https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2021/01/what-did-golden-age-detective-fiction-do-for-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-did-golden-age-detective-fiction-do-for-us https://fiona.veitchsmith.com/2021/01/what-did-golden-age-detective-fiction-do-for-us/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:51:31 +0000 http://fiona.veitchsmith.com/?p=1713 A fascinating insight into what 28 modern day crime & mystery authors (including yours truly) think is the lasting legacy of Golden Age detective fiction.

You can read the results of the survey on the Cross Examining Crime website.

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