COVER REVEAL: Cal’s back in #Unsound - and this time he’s looking for a missing Edinburgh student… coming Sept 5th 🧡

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To wrap up our discussion of Setting as Tone over on the Inkubator, we’re looking at one final example from the pages of THE UNFORGIVEN DEAD by Fulton Ross to illustrate the subtlety which you can infuse your setting with tone.
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🚨‼️🚨99p book alert! The Maiden: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 is currently available for 99p on kindle in a limited time deal!!!! amazon.co.uk/Maiden-daring-…

*BARGAIN KLAXON* The Last Dance - the first Declan Miller novel, is only 99p on Kindle for the whole of this month. Cheap, chips etc. amazon.co.uk/Last-Dance-thr…

Ya dancer! Cast a Cold Eye, my second Jimmy Dreghorn 1930s Glasgow thriller – shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize – is out in paperback today. Published by Pan Macmillan, available from countless lovely booksellers and perfect reading (hopefully) for a rainy Easter Weekend...😉

The unforgiven dead by Fulton Ross is my current bed-time reading. Someone should do a PhD on the social significance of the shinty minibus Shinty Kilmallie Shinty Club

First showing UK-wide on BBC Two for Series 3 of #ScotlandFromtheSky - featuring us loch-hopping down the Great Glen in a seaplane, exploring a Viking boat burial, the story of Scottish lighthouses - and even a spaceport! 🏔️🚁🛩️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Yes! My Glasgow cyberpunk short story FOREVER IN SCOTLAND is now free to read on the GlasgowReviewofBooks website! The first of GRB's #FutureGlasgow series, follow the link to check it out.

🌟 #TheBlackhouse is just $1.99 on Kindle until Mar 3!🌟

From the author of the “dark & devious” (Stephen King) #Mirrorland , comes a “thrilling, & utterly captivating” gothic tale set on a remote Scottish island where locals are hiding a deadly secret...amazon.com/Blackhouse-Nov…

Paperback publication day !!!! Out now:

Out in paperback this Thursday !

For the morning crowd 🤓

Fulton Ross - sorry, I forgot to tag you! x

📚 “Gripping, tense and highly original”
🕺🏽 CHUFFED to see #InHerShadow is BOOK OF THE MONTH in ScotsMagazine !
🙏🏼 Massive thanks to Dawn Geddes for the brilliant review 🙏🏼

🌊Today is US Pub Day of #TheBlackhouse paperback!🌊

I’m in love with the new cover, and so happy to see The Blackhouse out in the world again!

All links to buy 👇
carolejohnstone.com/the-blackhouse/

✨IG GIVEAWAY coming later today! ✨

Kara Watson Simon & Schuster Scribner

There are a couple of days left in January, so we’ve got time for a few more Favorite First Lines!

Today’s comes courtesy of THE UNFORGIVEN DEAD by the brilliant Fulton Ross.

An epic opener to this epic mystery!

Really excited to be taking part in Helensburgh Book Festival in March! I'll be talking about cat wash with the fantastic Robin Scott-Elliot on Saturday 23rd 7pm at the Helemsburgh Community Hub.

I'm chuffed to have launched Book Smart PR, a publicity service for creatives which arms writers with the tools they need to build a brand and promote their work. You can find out more about Book Smart here: booksmartpr.co.uk 📚📚📚

For the first time in its 240-year history, The Herald will be produced in Fort William.
Catherine Salmond: The Herald heads to The Highlands heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿In honour of Burns Night: Huv ye read Squeaky Clean yet? If no, why no?! (Gee yersel a shake, son!)

If you've not got celebrations planned yet, we hear there's something pretty good happening down Waterstones Glasgow... waterstones.com/events/in-conv…