cover reveal for The Custodian
Cover reveal, pre-order information and more in my newsletter:
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Don't expose your brain to generative AI. It's incredibly harmful, according to new studies out this year. Overuse of smart phones and social media has a reversible effect if you go cold-turkey, but generative AI appears to have longer-term effects. Colonizing your brain to stoopid.
Nine Missing Girls by Steena Holmes: a review.
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Bad double-exposed image of building and swimming pool, illustrating a feature in the new Dead East newsletter about how memory works. And doesn't.
New: the March 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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Highly recommended in my review: drnickguthrie.substack.com/p/driftnet-b...
I've just made my fourth story sale to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: "Silent Partner". Introducing DC Charlie Tunstall, probably the last person you'd want to be first on the scene of a murder...
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Arlo the Cat, making sure I don't slack
Who'd have thought writing was a spectator sport? #amwriting #cat
Just passed 35k words on the second DI Bolam novel. It's starting to feel like a real book! #amwriting #crimefiction #slowly
If they've sent that many, they must be contributors' copies, right?
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New: the March 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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Heading into London today, for the first time in ages. #AmBeingAWriterButNotWriting
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
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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.
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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
