SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL
Monday, 1 September 2025

Submissions for Joffe 2025 Book Prize open for submissions

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The Joffe Books Prize 2025 Opens Search for the  Next Bestselling Crime Writer of Colour Marking five years of the Joffe Books Prize, submis...
Monday, 25 August 2025

From Non-Fiction to Legal Thriller by S J Fleet

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Authenticity in fiction is tricky. That has been perhaps my biggest takeaway from the transition between non-fiction polemic and legal thril...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Spymasters Book Prize 2025: Shortlist Announced

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Six novels have been announced for the inaugural Spymasters book prize.  The Peacock and the Sparrow  by IS Berry Gabriel’s Moon  by William...

Short Stories: a personal perspective - Martin Edwards

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My first published fiction was a short story. ‘Are You Sitting Comfortably?’ won a competition at a seminar organised by a writers’ circle, ...
Monday, 18 August 2025

Thriller Writing and the Anxious Brain By Naomi Williams

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I still remember the moment my agent said she could imagine me writing a thriller. I’d written uplifting book-club fiction and family dramas...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Shortlists for further Ned Kelly Awards announced

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  The Australian Crime Writers Association announced the shortlists for the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards for the Best International Crime Fiction, ...
Thursday, 14 August 2025

Petrona Award 2025 Long list

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Outstanding Crime Fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Long-listed for the 2025 Petrona Award. Twelve crime novels from Finland,...
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Kingdom Come

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  It’s been a signal year for Stephen King followers as we had the release of his Crime Thriller NEVER FLINCH featuring Holly Gibney…. ….....
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

The 'Real' Locked Room Ghosts, Memory, and the House at Devil's Neck.by Tom Mead

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“ I get the willies when I see closed doors ,” says Bob Slocum, narrator of Joseph Heller’s 1974 novel Something Happened . Of course it’s n...
Friday, 8 August 2025

Ned Kelly Award for best Debut Novel announced

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  The Australian Crime Writers Association announced its shortlist for the 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction: Down the Rabbi...
Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Remi Kone - From TV Drama Producer to Crime Thriller Author

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My first job in television was making up stories for a soap. I couldn’t believe such a role existed - I had loved telling stories all my lif...

Quentin Bates talks to Shots Magazine

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  We were delighted to recently bump into the Renaissance Man of Mystery Quentin Bates at both Crimefest Bristol as well as Capital Crime. ...
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