Fancy a good read? Then check out the Books Corner at http://www.darlingtonforculture.org/books-corner/, which includes works by a number of Inkerman Writers

Inscribe Media has published a number of ebooks, including by Inkerman Writers Mike Beck, a crime writer, and thriller writer Roger Barnes. You can find out more about how to buy them as well as the writers'

thoughts on the writing process at www.inscribemedia.co.uk…

Inkerman, formerly Kalamita, is a cave town in the Eastern part of Crimea.  Inkerman is Turkish for a cave town.  The town started life as a cave monastery in the 8th century, later to be taken over by the Greeks as a fortress, then taken back by the Turks in the 15th century who named it Inkerman.  It received world wide attention in the Crimean war (1854) with the battle of Inkerman.  In more recent times the Soviets used it as an underground ammunitions store.  They abandoned it after a…

The first three crime novels by writer Bud Craig, from the Darlington area, have been brought together and published as an e-trilogy. Salford Murders features three gripping private eye detective stories set in the industrial North. With the atmosphere of urban decline and inner-city violence, these three murder mysteries are set in the metropolitan area of Salford, Manchester - one of the most deprived areas in…

Darlington authors Paul Hodgson and Inkerman Writer Mike Jarvie have brought out their new e-book  Give Them Wings.

Disabled as a result of childhood meningitis, Paul has written this hard-hitting autobiography…

John Dean has announced that he will run two masterclasses during the 2017 Darlington Arts Festival:

Saturday May 6

A Touch of Villainy–   Crime Fiction Masterclass

Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate, Darlington 10am-4pm

Run by crime novelist John Dean, the creator of the DCI John Blizzard and DCI Jack Harris series of books, this masterclass…

A year or so ago, the Inkerman Writers linked up with Darlington Videomakers Club. Club members read a number of stories/scripts by the writers and chose one by Fred Johnson. The result is Family Matters, which can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0NRhK7nVo

I recently amended the title of my top-selling book, Beyond The Law.

Following queries by several readers about a sequel, I wrote Beyond The Law: Retribution, which has been selling steadily. I left the second part of the story open, so I've been working on the third in the series.

I…

Hello fellow members of the Inkerman Writers. It's great to see more titles emerging from our talented authors, so in tune with new ideas, my new sales strategy for 2016 is to give away a title every month.

Instead of heading to Amazon via various clicks and searches I'm using the new 'preview before…

The third crime novel by Darlington-based Bud Craig, Falling Foul, has been published as a e-book by The Book Folks.

With his…

Twenty writers from the North of England, including Pam Plumb from Darlington, have been  announced as winners of the Northern Crime Competition.

Leeds-based writer Kathleen McKay has won £1000 and the publication of her contemporary crime novel, Hard Wired, by Moth Publishing in summer 2016.

A further 19 northern writers have won the Northern Crime…

The latest thriller by North East England author Roger Barnes has been published. Snow Birds, published as an ebook through Inscribe Media, is the third novel by the Darlington taxi driver following on from White Gold and Lost Souls.

After a number of high profile drug related deaths from pure cocaine supplied through London clubs to their patrons from the Financial…

A couple of years ago I tried writing erotica and failed miserably, mainly because I tried to stick to the rules. Which rules? Oh nothing much, just a load of tosh about decency, subtlety, and avoiding going too far with imagery. I read some of the modern erotica and found that a lot of authors are writing about something they know little or nothing about.

Inspired by the handful of books I downloaded, and the successful, though nonetheless rubbish '50 Shades ...' I…

The new book by Inkerman Writer Pam Plumb, ‘Akos Novus’, is now available from Amazon (at …

You can read the thoughts on their work of Darlington novelists, and Inkerman Writers, Mike Beck and Roger Barnes on a special feature at at…

This opportunity may interest the children’s writers among you, more on the page link here…

Earthstrider by Mike Watson is a lyrical story for children about a magical stranger who makes a river flow again.

Earthstrider can be obtained on Amazon or directly from Thynks Publication Limited…

The Open Mic night for authors season continues on Thursday June 25, the last before the summer break.

The nights, supported by Darlington for Culture and which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, run at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, Darlington, on the last Thursday of the month. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry is £3 paid on the door.

More information is available from Inscribe Media Limited at…

Advance notice of a Darlington Arts Festival event featuring three Inkerman Writers

Saturday May 23

2.30--4pm

A Life of Crime

Darlington Art Gallery, Crown Street Library, Darlington

Darlington-based crime writers Bud Craig, whose recently published second novel is Dead Certainty, Mike Beck, author of Harry’s Torment, and John Dean, whose latest novel is A Breach of Trust, talk about…

John Dean’s latest novel, A Breach of Trust (Hale), is out on January 30 2015. A crooked businessman suffers a fall at home and there is no reason to think it is anything other than an accident until after he dies when information comes to hand which points towards murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Blizzard and his team are brought in to investigate and attention…