🎧 Bad Boy audiobook wins an award 🎸 A tease of the next Jason Davey Mystery 📚 Short fiction news + some British TV love (Morse, Lewis, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet) A mix of books, writing life, and what’s been on my mind lately. Link ⬇️ #WritingLife #MysteryFiction #Audiobooks #JasonDavey #BritishTV

Bad Boy just won Best Mystery in the 2025 Audio Book Reviewer’s Awards! Huge thanks to narrator Nick Johnson. “SUSPENSE-FILLED…a thrilling scavenger hunt through music, mystery & London history. Johnson’s delivery is outstanding.” Listen now & meet sleuth-musician Jason Davey. Links in Reply.

Word Vancouver-Sept 20-UBC Robson Square. My colleague Angela Douglas & I are sharing a table in the Exhibitor Hall and showing off our books! Please drop by and have a chat! Get a book signed! Check out all the other great events happening at Word Vancouver 2025 at www.wordvancouver.ca

Word Vancouver-Sept 20-UBC Robson Square. My colleague Angela Douglas and I are sharing a table in the Exhibitor Hall and showing off our books! Please drop by and have a chat! Get a book signed! Check out all the other great events happening at Word Vancouver 2025 at www.wordvancouver.ca

Word Vancouver is always fun. Please drop by to see CWC's panel of talented crime writers: Angela Douglas, Faye E. Arcand, Jaima Fixsen, and D.b. Carew. Moderated by Erik D'Souza. The Story Behind the Story — An Author’s Masquerade www.wordvancouver.ca/room-c420/th...

Had a fabulous time on Tuesday at VPL's Writers Showcase - Crime Writers Takeover. Thanks to everyone who came out to support us and thanks to VPL, Bob Harris, Ardelle Holden, Iona Whishaw, Tony Ollivier, Merrilee Robson, Joanna Vander Vlugt and Nena from Cross and Crows Books!

Had a fabulous time on Tuesday at VPL's Writers Showcase - Crime Writers Takeover. Thanks to everyone who came out to support us and thanks to VPL, Bob Harris, Ardelle Holden, Iona Whishaw, Tony Ollivier, Merrilee Robson, Joanna Vander Vlugt and Nena from Cross and Crows Books!

Had a fabulous time on Tuesday at VPL's Writers Showcase - Crime Writers Takeover. Thanks to everyone who came out to support us and thanks to VPL, Bob Harris, Ardelle Holden, Iona Whishaw, Tony Ollivier, Merrilee Robson, Joanna Vander Vlugt and Nena from Cross and Crows Books!

Thrilled to bits that the audiobook for Bad Boy is now featured on Audio Book Reviewer! The book masterfully intertwines mystery and music, inviting fans to experience the thrill of the hunt while celebrating the indelible legacy of a bygone musical era. www.audiobookreviewer.com/bad-boy

It's tomorrow! Come on down to VPL on Tuesday, August 19, 6.30pm - 8.00pm for the LAST EVER Writers Showcase, CWC's Crime Writers Takeover. More info: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68128...

Come on down to VPL on Tuesday, August 19, 6.30pm - 8.00pm for the LAST EVER Writers Showcase, CWC's Crime Writers Takeover. More info: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68128...

My latest newsletter's out! Gardening, short stories, Crime Writers Takeover at VPL, audiobook and what's coming next! winonakent.substack.com/p/august-8-2... Or sign up for the email version here: www.winonakent.com/mailinglist....

Please join me and my excellent colleagues on Tuesday, August 19, at Vancouver Public Library's Montalbano Family Theatre, 6.30pm - 8.00pm for the LAST EVER Writers Showcase, CWC's Crime Writers Takeover. More info: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68128...

Marketing idea? A side gig in t-shirts? When his audition ends in murder, Jason Davey finds the real gig is catching a killer. (Also available for US and UK Kindle) (and it's free if you have Kindle Unlimited). Amazon Canada: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FF2SFNTC

When his audition ends in murder, Jason Davey finds the real gig is catching a killer. (Also available for US and UK Kindle) Amazon Canada: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FF2SFNTC

Please join Iona, Erik & me for a Spoken INK Reading event sponsored by Burnaby Writers' Society! 12pm-2pm (PT) Sun Jun 22 on Zoom. More info on FB: www.facebook.com/events/67229... Open mic will follow the reading time permitting.

Lovely review of Bad Boy in the latest issue of Stringendo, from the Australian Strings Association... www.austa.asn.au/stringendo-o...

Please join Iona, Erik & me for a Spoken INK Reading event sponsored by Burnaby Writers' Society! 12pm-2pm (PT) Sun Jun 22 on Zoom. More info on FB: www.facebook.com/events/67229... Open mic will follow the reading time permitting.

A pampered pooch, a color-allergic diva, and a cruise ship entertainer who didn’t sign up to solve crimes. All aboard Salty Dog Blues! A long short story which was shortlisted for CWC's Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novella. (also available for US and UK Kindle) www.amazon.ca/Salty-Dog-Bl...

I'm an old rock 'n' roll fan...my music is the early 1960s and I was a little prairie kid who loved the California surf sound. One of my favourites has a ton of improvised blues phrases on the Hammond Organ and piano. Brian Wilson on keyboards. RIP... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZd...

Here's fabulous Nick Johnson reading my latest Jason Davey mystery, Bad Boy. A mysterious thief takes his own life... but not before stealing priceless scores by Sir Edward Elgar. 1/2 www.canva.com/design/DAGkQ...

Thanks to all who came out to celebrate CWC's Awards of Excellence Shortlist last night at the Book Warehouse. Congrats to all the shortlisted authors & special congrats to Bill Deverell, 2025 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch Award. Full shortlist here: crimewriterscanada.com/index.php/en...

I'm going to make a speech and present a very special award. And we're announcing the CWC Awards of Excellence shortlists. There will be food! Please join us!

RCLAS is in New Westminster, BC, but you don't need to be a New West resident or an RCLAS member to enter. Details, submission rules, etc here: rclas.com/2025-write-o... Deadline May 4th o Non-Fiction (1500 words max) o Fiction (1500 words max) o Poetry (1 page) Deadline May 4, 2025

I'm going to make a speech and present a very special award. And we're announcing the CWC Awards of Excellence shortlists. There will be food! Please join us!

I'll put on my best presentation togs & brush up on my speechifying to present the Derrick Murdoch Award to a very deserving top secret recipient. We'll also announce the Awards of Excellence Shortlists. There will be food! There will be bookmarks! Come out & help us celebrate!

Check out this wonderful magazine! I've got an article in the Spring 2025 issue of Mystery Readers Journal. "Jason Davey's London" chats about where he works (Soho),lives (Angel, Islington) and all of the places he investigates in the novels. Mag's available here: mysteryreaders.org/journal-inde...

A mysterious thief takes his own life...but not before stealing priceless scores by Sir Edward Elgar. Can Jason Davey outsmart a Russian thug and Soho crimelord to recover the stolen masterpieces? The clock is ticking. The game is on. Ebook, paperback & audiobook. www.winonakent.com/badboy.html

Cool! Bad Boy's #3 in British Detectives in the Canadian Kindle store :) (and #8 in International Mysteries in the US Kindle store). Woo-hoo! amazon.ca/dp/B0F2Q26ZBD (Canada) amazon.com/dp/B0F2Q1Y7R4 (US) amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2PNWY13 (UK)

It's here! The brand new audiobook for my 5th Jason Davey mystery, Bad Boy. Narrated by Nick Johnson. BONUS get the ebook FREE Mar 28 and 29. Support Canadian Authors :) www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F2Q26ZBD (Canada) www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2Q1Y7R4 (US) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2PNWY13 (UK)

Please join Vancouver's own Literary Love Cowboy A.J. Devlin as he hosts Noir star Christa Faust and J.T. Siemens tomorrow at The Irish Heather Shebeen. A HammerSkall production by Magnus Skallagrimsson. 248 East Georgia (downstairs). Doors at 7pm. @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

My Bad Boy audiobook release is imminent. And I'm looking for reviewers. If you love a good amateur sleuth mystery and you have a US or a UK subscription to Amazon Audible, I'll have coupons for a free download that I'll be offering in exchange for a review. .../2

Please do drop by and read all about Jason's attempts to a) buy ingredients for lunch b) convince the shopkeeper he's not a stalker, washed-up roadie, and squalid PI and c) locate Judy, who will send him on his quest for Elgar's lost scores. smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/s...

News about the audiobook for "Bad Boy", plus Jeanne Basone's "Hooray for Hollywood" ... and how to make home-made butter! My March newsletter is here: winonakent.substack.com/p/march-2025...

Watched a fab doc featuring Randy Bachman. Love his stories...how they got the name Chad Allan & the Reflections...their first huge hit - the Canadian release of "Shakin' All Over"...can we say I'm now totally immersed in early Guess Who nostalgia? We can! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wf9...

As I proof the last chapters of the audiobook for Bad Boy, this little hummingbird came to visit. It's pouring rain outside & there's a feeder just out of shot. Little bird has come for a drink & to preen itself & get dry. Must feel very safe on my balcony! Been here for 15 mins, fluffing itself up.

I usually post my personal newsletters on Substack as soon as they're sent out...but I fell a little behind. So...here's my Dec 2024 newsletter... lots of things I've been up to...plus some news & pix from the arson fire that destroyed where I used to live. open.substack.com/pub/winonake...

I'm so proud of myself. Doing the treadmill in our gym every day for 1/2 hour, building up resilience, averaging 3mph. Today I tried running at 4mph-three bursts-an average of 20 secs each time. I know it's a small thing, but I've NEVER been able to run before (too heavy). 40lbs lighter now. Onward!

I was at UBC last night having dinner with an old friend. Outside my old workplace, I saw rhododendrons, tiny seedlings planted 7 yrs ago in the midst of a drought. I'd watered them by hand, 2x a week, all that summer. So thrilled to see them all BIG & thriving & healthy. My little green legacy :)

I feel an earworm coming on! Cue: those four drum kicks at the start of Cliff Richard's "Congratulations". My wonderful voice actor Nick Johnson has finished reading "Bad Boy" 2 months early. I'm just reviewing it now and it'll be ready to go SOON! Stay tuned!!

I've now heard the first two chapters of Bad Boy, narrated by the wonderful Nick Johnson. It's amazing! You'll be able to hear the entire book this summer. Curious about the novel? Click here: www.badboybook.com Read the first 2 chapters free here: www.winonakent.com/badboy-chapt...

I officially became a Canadian citizen 50 yrs ago (give or take a month). This was my first Canadian passport. I'm so glad that I did that, and I'm so proud to have made that choice, and I'm so proud of my country and my fellow Canadians right now. (I was a "Landed Immigrant" ...from the UK).

First world problems. Our swimming pool is closed for repairs. I've had to resort to the treadmill in our gym for my daily exercise. Fortunately I still have the tunes from my lunchtime gym sessions when I worked at UBC. #musictomyears I love this playlist :)

A fabulously cool electric guitar rendering of the BBC News Theme. It's so cool, the idea made it into Bad Boy. www.youtube.com/shorts/Roc0b... I wish I could include this original creative composery in my audiobook. An audiobook about a musician, right? But...copyright. :D

I've been working on two projects this week :) The first is formatting a paperback by the lovely Jeanne "Hollywood" Basone for ebook distribution. The other is auditioning and signing a wonderful voice actor, Nick Johnson, to narrate the audiobook for my Jason Davey mystery, Bad Boy.

I stole this from my sister. I'm not sure where she stole it from.😊

Some exciting news about "Bad Boy"! I've just signed a contract for the audiobook! I've got a lovely, enthusiastic, authentic Englishman to narrate...and if all goes well, we'll have it up on Audible in May :) (And from there - possibly the entire series!)

I rescued some Pothos plants from the recycling room at my sister's apt bldg last night. They're a bit traumatized. In the meantime here's an important blue bottle, which was the inspiration for a similar bottle in "Bad Boy". And a nice mug which has my afternoon coffee in it. :-D

Brrr.... we've got SNOW forecast for Vancouver this weekend. I might have to resort to this fabulous beret I knitted myself a couple of years ago. I always get wonderful comments from passers-by when I wear it.

I'm looking for an English male voice actor to narrate all 5 Jason Davey Mysteries for audiobook release. I can only afford a 50/50 royalty share. I know it's a lot of work and a big investment of time for the narrator. But it'll be on Amazon's Audible + iTunes and it's 40% royalty split. :-)