Over on the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine blog I have a post on the background to my story "Where's Pete?": somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2026/03/06/n...
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Over on the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine blog I have a post on the background to my story "Where's Pete?": somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2026/03/06/n...
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20,000 words into a first draft and I very nearly used my first exclamation mark. Then I thought better of it. #amwriting
And all of a sudden it's March, which means I have a story in the current issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine!
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…signed a two-book deal today. Which is nice.
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Book deals, short stories in the big mystery mags, book reviews, a barn owl and the Northern Lights - my newsletter is out. drnickguthrie.substack.com/p/a-busy-202...
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A quick-fire Q&A with crime writer, Nick Guthrie
urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/02/17/i... @nickguthrie.co.uk
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New: the February issue of the Dead East newsletter is now available, a free monthly email covering new releases, extracts, events, news and other information from across the crime genre.
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Out now: my short story "Wrong Notes", where recollections of Les Dawson help solve a murder. Published in Black Cat Weekly Magazine. Available from blackcatweekly.com/b/5RDQo
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Ooh... Cover roughs for the first DI Bolam novel. Exciting! It's starting to look like a real book.
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3D map, courtesy of Arlo the cat
Arlo the cat has decided that the map of the fictional town where my DI Bolam series is set is the best place to sit when he's come in wet and muddy from the garden.
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a not too great watercolour of Derwent Island
I'm running a couple of weeks behind on Landscape Artist of the Year, but here's my attempt at the setting of the first episode, Lake Derwent.
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The Youth of Today by Nick Guthrie
Short crime fiction by an author fast becoming a regular in the world's top crime fiction magazines.
Full story at: urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/01/18/t...
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Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Nov-Dec 2025
Author copies! #mystery #CrimeFiction #MysteryFiction #ahmm
Passed 10k words on the second DI Bolam novel this afternoon, which is the target I'd set myself for the end of the week. Bonus words tomorrow! #amwriting #crimefiction #mysteryfiction
Lovely to have a piece of flash fiction, "The Youth of Today", accepted and very rapidly published by Urban Pigs Press.
urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/01/18/t...
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Nick Guthrie's cracking short story, 'The Youth of Today,' kicks off @UrbanPigsPress' Revolt call-out. urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/01/18/t... #writingcommunity
Dead East, January 2026 - lots of stuff about crime fiction
New: the January issue of the Dead East newsletter is now available, a free monthly email covering new releases, extracts, events, news and other information from across the crime genre.
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Well that's a nice way to finish off the year - two short story acceptances. Details to follow in the new year. #writing #crimefiction #mysteryfiction
I’ve just booked accommodation for the 2026 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival - my first crime festival. Looking forward to it! #mystery #CrimeFiction #MysteryFiction #publishing #TheakstonsCrime
New: the December issue of the Dead East newsletter is now available, a free monthly email covering new releases, extracts, events, news and other information from across the genre.
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It's the second in a crime series - murder and corruption in a Suffolk seaside town.
Oops... I appear to have inadvertently started writing a novel.
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News for writers: Hodder are open for a week to non-agented submissions, highlighting crime and thrillers as genres of interest:
www.hodder.co.uk/landing-page...
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Thinking about next year, which crime festivals and other events should a UK-based writer try to get to? Which ones are your favourites?
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six top crime novels
Six of my favourite reads this year. Full reviews at drnickguthrie.substack.com Putting off writing? Me?
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Silent Bones - the new DCI Karen Pirie novel by Val McDermid reviewed. open.substack.com/pub/drnickgu...
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Dead East: a free monthly email offering news and exclusive content from crime authors based in the East of England. New releases, extracts, events, news and other information from across the genre.
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Hindsights
Available now: Hindsights
A collection of the final seven collaborations between Eric Brown and Keith Brooke.
pspublishing.co.uk/hindsights-h...
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Everyone tells me I should be doing things on TikTok, so... www.tiktok.com/@nickguthrie... #crimefiction #booktok
I never, for a moment, imagined that I'd manage three in a row, but that's what's happened:
"From Grace" in the Nov/Dec AHMM.
"Where's Pete?" in the Jan/Feb EQMM.
"It's Complicated" in the Mar/Apr AHMM.
I'm quite chuffed with this, to say the least!