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If anyone's near York on the 6th June I'm taking part in the Harrogate International Festival's Crime on Tour road show, introduced by Peter Robinson and featuring yours truly and debut novelist David Mark.
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Tickets are a fiver and no clash with England's fixtures at Euro 2012. What could be better.

DEITY is out there and even in limited edition hardback it is getting 5-star reviews on Amazon. My publisher is also running a youtube advertising campaign. See www.whatisdeity.com for a taste of the novel's themes.

For all of you who don't read hardbacks, the paperback is out on June 21st followed by an extensive campaign of book signings and festival appearances. See my new website www.stevendunne.co.uk for details.

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Further to yesterday's news, I have arranged to be at two Waterstones stores to sign copies of the paperback of DEITY after its release. I will be in the Derby store on Saturday June 23rd and at the branch in the Trafford Centre, Manchester on June 30th. Both from 10.00am until late afternoon. See you there hopefully.

Happy New Year to all my readers. The cover of the new DI Brook thriller, DEITY, is on the front of the website. I hope you like it as much as I do. I've received a definitive date for the release of DEITY. The hardback will be available from April 26th, presumably the Kindle version will be out at the same time. However, the paperback is released on June 21st, brought forward from August because my good friends at Waterstones have decided to include DEITY in their summer promotion. Great news. So you can be reading a copy of the novel on your sunbed in whatever version you prefer.

I'm excited about DEITY because everyone at Headline who's read it was thrilled with it and very enthusiastic about its prospects.

Oh joy and desolation. My new novel DEITY is in the can and after two weeks pushing myself to the brink of heart failure and insanity it's winging its way to the publisher. Now I've got my life back, as usual I don't know what to do with it. I suppose I could start the next one. Ideas anyone?

Deadline day approaches and the frenzy to add value to the manuscript will soon reach fever pitch. As soon as the test series is finished.

Thanks for all the nice comments still trickling in, in appreciation of The Reaper, which was published all of two years ago now. It still confers a childish kick to read good wishes from around the globe, so thanks Trevor in New Zealand and happy reading.
I spent a very enjoyable evening in the Brunswick pub, Derby last night, meeting and talking with members of Derby Scribes, a community of writers who meet twice a month to discuss their own writing projects and anything of interest in the literary world. It's heartening to know the written word is in the safe hands of such enthusiasts who write the full gamut of genres from graphic novels through horror and fantasy, to my own genre, crime fiction. All writers, or those hoping to start writing, are welcome.
Anyone interested in joining them in their twice monthly meetings can contact Chris Barker on christopher.barker@gmail.com

Time to take a break from writing Deity. There comes a point in every creative act when you just have to leave it alone completely and return to it refreshed and reinvigorated. And this is that time. Happy Easter everyone.

Hi folks


I thought it was time to reveal that Harper Collins and I have parted company after two novels together, The Reaper and The Disciple. I now have a new publisher, Headline, and a new novel entitled Deity set for release in July 2012. The reason for revealing this is because my third novel will not now be the final part of The Reaper trilogy for reasons partly beyond my control.

The final instalment of the trilogy is called The Resurrection and I began writing it after the release of The Disciple. However, although The Disciple got great reviews and did good business, it didn't hit the heights of The Reaper and in their wisdom, Harper Collins decided that they were not going to commission The Resurrection. Instead they wanted to skip straight to my 4th novel Deity, the synopsis of which they loved.

At this point, I was prepared to reject a new offer from HC and return to self publishing to finish the trilogy because in my opinion one of the reasons for The Disciple's performance was Harper's inability to republish The Reaper to stand alongside it. New readers were hardly likely to take a chance on a sequel to a book which was no longer available and this omission seemed to me to be unforgiveable.

Instead of self publishing however, Headline entered the fray, and impressed me greatly with their commitment to DI Brook as a character. Unfortunately, although enthusiastic about both Reaper and Disciple, they were unable to commision the third part of a trilogy when another publisher had control over the first two books. So, after much soul searching, I signed a 2 book deal with Headline for two new Inspector Brook novels, which will hopefully put the series on the map and allow me, eventually, to revisit the final episode of The Reaper trilogy. I hope you'll stick with me through his new cases and not lose faith that the trilogy will be completed at the earliest opporunity.