Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts

Monday, 1 August 2011

Harrogate International Crime Festival 2011

Here are a few photos we took.  
 Lee Child reading Dead End
   Chris came all the way from Belgium
 With Dreda Say Mitchell, Festival Chair and brilliant author
 Sharing a joke with Mark Lawson
 Big Lee and Little Leigh
 Signing my books for fans
 With Chris Simmons and Graham Smith from Crimesquad
 With Sonia from In Touch Magazine in Cyprus
 Signing books for fans

And finally - we couldn't go to Harrogate without paying a visit to Bettys Tea Shop!

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Good News and Bad News

I've all but finished the edits for DEAD END and am getting quite excited about publication in May. It's not that far off! In the meantime, ROAD CLOSED is being reprinted, and CUT SHORT will be reprinted in a new format in June.
With all the focus on preparing for publication, the promotion goes on. It is not an exaggeration when I say that I regularly receive invitations to give interviews. Just today I had approaches from journalists on two local papers covering areas where I'll be signing near Christmas, saw a post I'd written go online on the Harrogate Festival website, heard about another guest post going online at the beginning of December, received a PDF from Mystery Women who had asked me to write a Guest Author Post for their online magazine which will be sent out next week and I'm waiting to see a feature about me in the Times Educational Supplement in December.
Here's the link to my post on the Harrogate website:
http://www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/yourebooked/2010/11/my-beginnings-by-leigh-russell/
And links to two other interviews which came online this week, both print copies published a few months ago. This one is from Hertfordshire Life http://hertfordshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/crime-pays-for-watford-author-27276/
and In Touch Magazine in Cyprus where not only is the article headed 'An Exclusive Interview with Best Selling Author Leigh Russell' but the type is in a lovely purple font! Love it!
http://www.freeintouchmagazine.com/uploads/3/0/3/5/3035922/leigh_russell_interview.pdf
On the down side, I wasn't invited to join a panel at Harrogate Festival - one day, when I've made my name, I hope to be there. In the meantime, it's back to the edits...