The Booktrail comes to Bloody Scotland
In just over a month’s time, Bloody Scotland gets underway and I for one, can not wait. I am super excited about playing a small role in what looks set to the be the best festival ever!
I’ve been asked to write about Scotland’s finest writers and the glory that is Tartan Noir and I cannot tell you how proud I am to be part of this – one of the “bloody” brilliant crime festivals taking place up and down this fair land of ours. I love Scotland and books set there. Call myself an honorary Scot having studied and lived in Scotland and the fact that I genuinely do love a big bowl of haggis. I may not have the accent normally but I do when I’m up there!
Now this year’s festival looks set to be the best ever – the number and variety of writers there. Craig Robertson for one – now you’re always guaranteed a fine gallus read with one of his books and the man himself is a proud Scotsman whose books ooze with the banter and gallows humour unique to Scottish set fiction. And he plays a mean game of football so I’m told 😉
Crime novels set in Scotland always have that edge for me – not sure if it’s the history of the country with its Robert the Bruce and the battles in and around the fair isle, or the bloodshed across history, or the wild moorland, the craggy mountains and the windswept isles. Maybe it’s the gothic buildings in the cities with stories of ghosts and other beings stalking the castles and the underground passageways. If you’ve ever been to Edinburgh on a ghost tour or delved underground into its caverns then you’ll know what I mean.
The Bloody Scotland posse is a right good bunch and mix of Scottish writers, those who set their books there and then there’s the best and greatest of the rest crime writers. So something for everyone but right at the heart of Scotland itself and bringing the scares and scars to Stirling…
Having just returned from the fest that was Harrogate, I’m still in a crime buzz with all the lovely bloggers and writers I met there. And I know you all are too. So come on and let’s have a wee dram and chat to celebrate all that is good about crime fiction.
I’m literally dancing a Scottish jig, wearing a kilt at the fact I’m doing this, so dance with me won’t you? Over crossed swords whilst wearing a kilt and a tartan beret….haha there ‘s an image you’ll never forget. Sorry 😉
Send in your Scottish fiction recommendations and booktrails or just general comments about what Bloody Scotland and its writers mean to you and let’s draw some blood on the blog!
Very proud to be official blogger this year so head over to the first post now and keep an eye out for more….bloodyscotland.com/the-booktrail-comes-to-bloody-scotland/
Don’t forget to book for what looks set to be a Bloody good and Criminally fantastic 3 days : bloodyscotland.com/events/
For books set in Scotland: Tartan Noir and more await…
