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Special Deal - 2 for 1 on the Harry books in Australia!

31/5/2020

DOUBLE TROUBLE - SPECIAL DEAL on the Harry novels! 🕵️‍♀️😎
You like your crime fiction hard, dark and sexy? Then come and meet PI Harry Kenmare. But be warned, these are not stories for the fainthearted, my friends.
2 for the price of 1, posted anywhere in Australia.
That's just $30, incl. postage, for both Harry's World and Harry's Quest, signed by me and with some Harry bookmarks thrown in.🕵️‍♀️
Deal good until 15 June 2020. Contact me via email.
And apologies to overseas readers, but the postage costs mean I can only offer this deal in Australia.
Cheers, ABP

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A.B.Patterson LIVE READING - Thrilling Detective - Noir at the Bar

23/5/2020

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Absolutely thrilled to be reading live tomorrow (Australian time) on the Thrilling Detective website's first Noir at the Bar - virtual, of course. More's the pity, I'd love to be back in California reading in person. Still, hopefully next year. If you read my blogs, you'll have seen me talk about the excellent website, The Thrilling Detective, run by Kevin Burton Smith in California. If you are into private eye crime fiction, you MUST get familiar with this site: it is the holy grail for our genre.

So, if you fancy some live reading from crime writers, including me reading some Harry, here's the blurb:

Next up is our first-ever THRILLING DETECTIVE NOIR AT THE BAR, set for Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 5:00 PM PST, which hopefully means most North Americans can participate. If this is a big problem, let me know. And if there’s a big global uprising, I may hold a more international one next time (but hey, we’ve got an Australian!). It should last about two hours, and will feature past and current contributors to the site, reading from old and new works of private eye fiction. Scheduled to appear are Thrilling Detective’s former fiction editors Victoria Esposito and Gerald So, and readings from Ron Miller, Mark Troy, A.B. Patterson, Mark Best, Josh Lanyon, David Avallone (reading from the Nooniverse), Victoria Esposito (reading for Gerald So), and Graham Powell. So far…
Come for the readings, stay for the schmoozing!

Yep, no prizes for guessing, I'm the Australian component. And honoured to be in the line up.

So, my local Aussie fans, it's 10 a.m. Sunday morning, 24 May, on the Australian east coast (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, and Canberra), 8 a.m. for Perth and the west coast, and 9.30 a.m. for Adelaide and Darwin, and anyone else in the middle bits).

The link you need: (https://thrillingdetective.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/the-thrilling-detective-zoom/)

Cheers,
ABP

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Cops Writing Crime - update on the anthology project

12/5/2020

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The Cops Writing Crime anthology project hit a slight pause as our lives got rearranged for us, but I'm now trying to get it back on track.

I've had a great response from Squad members I've reached out to (those I know on Twitter, basically) and there are potentially 34 interested authors, so far.
Now that is a goer, as a proposition. I've had interest shown from the USA (18), the UK (8), Australia (3), New Zealand (2), Canada (2), and Pakistan (1). If even half of the interested authors produce contributions that work for the anthology, then we have a book, my friends.

Anyway, early days yet, but this project has promise and I'm going to drive it hard. The project blurb will be going out to all the interested authors over the next couple of days.

And if you're a Squad member, or think you should be, and you'd like to join this project, please reach out and we can chat.

Stay safe everyone.

Cheers,
ABP

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Special Deal - 2 for 1 on the Harry books in Australia!

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