Author: Annette Crossland

Alan Gorevan is an Irish thriller writer and intellectual property attorney. A winner of the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair competition, he is the author of the novels The Kindness of Psychopaths, Better Confess, and Out of Nowhere, the novellas The Forbidden Room, The Hostage, and Hit and Run, and the short story collection Dark… Read more »

Heleen Kist is a Dutch businesswoman who lived all over the world while growing up and for her career. Then she fell in love with a Scotsman and his country, and now writes about its (sometimes scary) people from her garden office in Glasgow. She was awarded a Spotlight as ‘up and coming author’ at… Read more »

Iain Maitland is the author of the thrillers, Sweet William, Mr Todd’s Reckoning and The Scribbler. Mr Todd’s Reckoning is coming to TV as a six-part series courtesy of AbbottVision, the makers of Shameless and Cracker. He is also the author of two memoirs, Dear Michael, Love Dad and Out Of The Madhouse. He is… Read more »

Linda Stratmann is the author of fourteen non-fiction books mainly about true crime, but her work also includes Chloroform, the Quest for Oblivion, a history of the use and misuse of chloroform, and three biographies, notably her acclaimed The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde’s Nemesis. Her most recent non-fiction publication The Secret Poisoner chronicles the efforts of science and the law to tackle poison… Read more »

I am excited to report that my first novel, Endless Turquoise, is available on Amazon, so pack your bags and get ready to take a trip to the Caribbean. You can purchase an e-book of Endless Turquoise by following these links: IN THE USA HERE    IN CANADA HERE    AND IN THE UK HERE… Read more »

Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Becky Hobson, Group Publishing Manager at Ulverscroft, has acquired audio rights for Isis Audio of A.A. Chaudhuri’s THE SCRIBE and THE ABDUCTION. These are the first two volumes in the Amazon bestselling Kramer/Carver thriller series. A.A. Chaudhuri commented “I am absolutely thrilled that THE SCRIBE… Read more »

Karen Sullivan, Publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights, ex-USA/Can, including TV and audio, for Awais Khan’s atmospheric, searing No Honour, and a further, untitled novel, from Annette Crossland at A is for Authors, in a Frankfurt pre-empt. Karen says, ‘This beautifully written, utterly compulsive book has… Read more »

  Born in Doncaster, Leigh ended up in her current home in Cambridge via Liverpool and London. Along the way she founded a magazine about women’s writing (and was one of the first to publish Carol Ann Duffy, among others), counted cars, built up her typing speed, worked as a journalist, and headed up communications… Read more »