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The Author As An Object of His Own Regard
News Update September 2011
Going Digital
Rod is in discussions with Five Leaves Press about publishing an e- edition of No Way to Say Goodbye. This means Rod will have to stop prevaricating and buy a Kindle at last.
Completion
Rod's second novel Hanging Johnny: The Secret of Babbacombe Lee is now finished and hopefully publisher's offers are about to come pouring in!
MURDER BY THE BOOK:
A Readers' Day for Lovers of Crime Fiction
Speakers: Stephen Booth and Rod Madocks
Plus a Victorian Murder Mystery from author Martin Edwards
Saturday, 12th June
10.00 - 4.00pm
Nottingham Central Library
Tickets for the full day cost £5.00/£4.00 concessions.
Half day tickets cost £3.00/£2.50 concessions.
Tickets are available from the Helpdesk on the Ground Floor of the Central Library: 0115 9152824.
Light refreshments. Booking is essential.
Please contact Jane Brierley for further details
0115 9152813 or email jane.brierley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
10.00 Tea and welcome
10.15 Rod Madocks: Seeing Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on true crime and crime fiction. Rod is a local author who has worked in forensic mental health and in maximum security hospitals . His 2009 novel, "No Way To Say Goodbye" was nominated for a Crime Dagger by the CWA.
11.00 Tea
11.15 Stephen Booth: A Talk by the Best Selling author of the Derbyshire based Cooper and Fry Series
12.30-1pm New Crime: an introduction to some of the best new fiction of 2009/10
1pm-2pm Lunch Drinks only provided.
2pm-4pm A Victorian Murder Mystery Afternoon presented by author Martin Edwards, author of "The Serpent Pool" and "Dancing for the Hangman". We will of course be taking afternoon tea.
4pm Close
A regional event
Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Oxford Road, Leicester
10.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 20th March.
Stalls from dozens of independent publishers. Workshops, readings and book launches.
Independent presses from across the region (and some from around the country) will be on site, together with many regional writers whose work is published by large and small independent publishers.
Join us for an hour or two or the whole day.
Open to all and free of charge.
Full programme on www.statesofindependence.co.uk or from info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Printed programmes and posters available from info@fiveleaves.co.ukinfo@fiveleaves.co.uk
Photos: Ed Herington
Forty writers, mostly from the East Midlands, will be reading from their work at an events programme to accompany an equal number of independent publishers and writers' organisations staffing bookstalls and displaying their work.
Authors include nationally known figures including children's writers Berlie Doherty (twice winner of the Carnegie Award) and Chris D'Lacey, novelists Anthony Cartwright (Heartland, recently read on Book at Bedtime) and Rod Madocks (shortlisted for the ITV Crime and Thriller Awards) and poets Gregory Woods and Deborah Tyler-Bennett. We'll also be providing a Leicester launch for Maria Allen's first novel, launching the international poetry magazine Cleave and featuring talks on independent football magazines, the 1984 Miners' Strike and well known phrases and sayings.
Independent press editors taking part include Iron Press's Peter Mortimer on his “40 years before the mast” as a publisher, and Lynne Patrick from Crème de la Crime, probably the only female crime fiction publisher in the UK. Publishers, groups and magazines from the East and West Midlands and the North East in particular will be represented.
Organised by Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham and the Creative Writing Team at De Montfort University
LeftLion magazine
Issue 32 Dec 09
Review by James Walker.
In writing his debut novel, Rod Madocks has sacrificed a lot. Firstly, he sold his house to finance writing it and secondly, he has taken the maximum security asylum as his setting, thereby risking alienation from his former work colleagues for exposing the hidden truths of the profession he worked in for fifteen years. Thank goodness he did.
Set over three parts, the novel follows the fortunes of Jack Keyse as he comes to terms with personal loss and seeks vengeance upon the person who has taken her from him, yet this is easier said than done. Consequently Keyse develops some complex relationships with characters which a less sensitive author would simply have demonised and constructed into a simplistic binary narrative of good versus evil. You may not necessarily be able to forgive someone for what they have done but understanding why is part of the healing process. A notable moral indeed.
James Walker
TIME OF THE BLADES
November 2009
Well, the Dagger was not to be for this scribbler this time, although it was a privilege to be measured against some very talented new novelists. The John Creasey CWA 2009 Crime Thriller Awards Dagger went in the end to the Swedish writer Johan Theorin.
It was a pleasure also to meet my fellow novelists especially Gene Kerrigan whose fine novel Dark Times in the City was also up for a Dagger.
I enjoyed also watching Lynda La Plante lace into the publishers for propagating so many 'celebrity novels' and it was strange to see my image flit briefly across the TV screen but it is a relief now to turn from this world and trudge upstairs to my garret room where I am concocting a new and even more extraordinary fiction.
INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN BOOTH - AUTHOR OF THE COOPER & FRY DETECTIVE SERIES
LOWDHAM BOOK FESTIVAL
27th JULY 2009.
I was privileged to be invited to the 10th Lowdham book festival and was interviewed in a public event by noted crime author Stephen Booth . It is always a pleasure to appear with Stephen and this time I had the novelty of submitting to his probing questions.
Of No Way To Say Goodbye Stephen observed, " If you want a rare glimpse into what really goes on inside a secure psychiatric hospital like Rampton or Broadmoor . This is the book for you."
"No Way to Say Goodbye"
Publication Date; 15th December 2009
Available from shops and on-line shops from December 22nd 2009
Launch January 2009.
The Author As An Object of His Own Regard
MURDER BY THE BOOK: A Readers' Day for Lovers of Crime Fiction
States of Independnce Event 20th March 2010
WriteLion 5 podcast
LeftLion magazine Issue 32 Dec 09. Review by James Walker.
TIME OF THE BLADES November 2009
LeftLion Event at 'The Hockley Hustle' 25th October 2009
Lowdham Book Festival July 2009
Meeting Stephen Booth
Saturday 27th June 2009
Lowdham Methodist Church, Nottinghamshire
18th February 2009
My life working with Britain's most dangerous killers
15th December 2008
"No Way To Say Goodbye " Publication Date
29th November
Crime Afternoon
MURDER BY THE BOOK: A Readers' Day for Lovers of Crime Fiction
States of Independnce Event 20th March 2010
WriteLion 5 podcast
LeftLion magazine Issue 32 Dec 09. Review by James Walker.
TIME OF THE BLADES November 2009
LeftLion Event at 'The Hockley Hustle' 25th October 2009
Lowdham Book Festival July 2009
Meeting Stephen Booth
Saturday 27th June 2009
Lowdham Methodist Church, Nottinghamshire
18th February 2009
My life working with Britain's most dangerous killers
15th December 2008
"No Way To Say Goodbye " Publication Date
29th November
Crime Afternoon
The Author As An Object of His Own Regard News Update September 2011
Going Digital
Rod is in discussions with Five Leaves Press about publishing an e- edition of No Way to Say Goodbye. This means Rod will have to stop prevaricating and buy a Kindle at last.
Completion
Rod's second novel Hanging Johnny: The Secret of Babbacombe Lee is now finished and hopefully publisher's offers are about to come pouring in!
MURDER BY THE BOOK:A Readers' Day for Lovers of Crime Fiction
Speakers: Stephen Booth and Rod Madocks
Plus a Victorian Murder Mystery from author Martin Edwards
Saturday, 12th June
10.00 - 4.00pm
Nottingham Central Library
Tickets for the full day cost £5.00/£4.00 concessions.
Half day tickets cost £3.00/£2.50 concessions.
Tickets are available from the Helpdesk on the Ground Floor of the Central Library: 0115 9152824.
Light refreshments. Booking is essential.
Please contact Jane Brierley for further details
0115 9152813 or email jane.brierley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
10.00 Tea and welcome
10.15 Rod Madocks: Seeing Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on true crime and crime fiction. Rod is a local author who has worked in forensic mental health and in maximum security hospitals . His 2009 novel, "No Way To Say Goodbye" was nominated for a Crime Dagger by the CWA.
11.00 Tea
11.15 Stephen Booth: A Talk by the Best Selling author of the Derbyshire based Cooper and Fry Series
12.30-1pm New Crime: an introduction to some of the best new fiction of 2009/10
1pm-2pm Lunch Drinks only provided.
2pm-4pm A Victorian Murder Mystery Afternoon presented by author Martin Edwards, author of "The Serpent Pool" and "Dancing for the Hangman". We will of course be taking afternoon tea.
4pm Close
A regional event
Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Oxford Road, Leicester
10.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 20th March.
Stalls from dozens of independent publishers. Workshops, readings and book launches.
Independent presses from across the region (and some from around the country) will be on site, together with many regional writers whose work is published by large and small independent publishers.
Join us for an hour or two or the whole day.
Open to all and free of charge.
Full programme on www.statesofindependence.co.uk or from info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Printed programmes and posters available from info@fiveleaves.co.ukinfo@fiveleaves.co.uk
Photos: Ed Herington
Forty writers, mostly from the East Midlands, will be reading from their work at an events programme to accompany an equal number of independent publishers and writers' organisations staffing bookstalls and displaying their work.
Authors include nationally known figures including children's writers Berlie Doherty (twice winner of the Carnegie Award) and Chris D'Lacey, novelists Anthony Cartwright (Heartland, recently read on Book at Bedtime) and Rod Madocks (shortlisted for the ITV Crime and Thriller Awards) and poets Gregory Woods and Deborah Tyler-Bennett. We'll also be providing a Leicester launch for Maria Allen's first novel, launching the international poetry magazine Cleave and featuring talks on independent football magazines, the 1984 Miners' Strike and well known phrases and sayings.
Independent press editors taking part include Iron Press's Peter Mortimer on his “40 years before the mast” as a publisher, and Lynne Patrick from Crème de la Crime, probably the only female crime fiction publisher in the UK. Publishers, groups and magazines from the East and West Midlands and the North East in particular will be represented.
Organised by Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham and the Creative Writing Team at De Montfort University
WriteLion 5 podcast
WriteLion 5 podcast is now live and includes interviews with Paul Reaney, Rod Maddocks and Megan Taylor.
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/audio.cfm/id/86
WriteLion 5 podcast is now live and includes interviews with Paul Reaney, Rod Maddocks and Megan Taylor.
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/audio.cfm/id/86
LeftLion magazineIssue 32 Dec 09
Review by James Walker.
In writing his debut novel, Rod Madocks has sacrificed a lot. Firstly, he sold his house to finance writing it and secondly, he has taken the maximum security asylum as his setting, thereby risking alienation from his former work colleagues for exposing the hidden truths of the profession he worked in for fifteen years. Thank goodness he did.
Set over three parts, the novel follows the fortunes of Jack Keyse as he comes to terms with personal loss and seeks vengeance upon the person who has taken her from him, yet this is easier said than done. Consequently Keyse develops some complex relationships with characters which a less sensitive author would simply have demonised and constructed into a simplistic binary narrative of good versus evil. You may not necessarily be able to forgive someone for what they have done but understanding why is part of the healing process. A notable moral indeed.
James Walker
TIME OF THE BLADES November 2009
Well, the Dagger was not to be for this scribbler this time, although it was a privilege to be measured against some very talented new novelists. The John Creasey CWA 2009 Crime Thriller Awards Dagger went in the end to the Swedish writer Johan Theorin.
It was a pleasure also to meet my fellow novelists especially Gene Kerrigan whose fine novel Dark Times in the City was also up for a Dagger.
I enjoyed also watching Lynda La Plante lace into the publishers for propagating so many 'celebrity novels' and it was strange to see my image flit briefly across the TV screen but it is a relief now to turn from this world and trudge upstairs to my garret room where I am concocting a new and even more extraordinary fiction.
LeftLion Event at 'The Hockley Hustle' 25th October 2009
A busy October beckons : I am doing a podcast interview with James T Walker of LeftLion on 14th October.
On the 21st I'm treading the red carpet for the Crime Writing Association 2009 Dagger Awards in London where No Way To Say Goodbye has been nominated for the John Creasey Dagger.
On the 25th of October I am appearing in a double billing with Anne Featherstone , author of Walking in Pimlico at the Broadway Cinema Nottingham.
In the meantime I am working hard on the second novel. Does anyone know a good agent?
See www.leftlion.co.uk for billing timings.
A busy October beckons : I am doing a podcast interview with James T Walker of LeftLion on 14th October.
On the 21st I'm treading the red carpet for the Crime Writing Association 2009 Dagger Awards in London where No Way To Say Goodbye has been nominated for the John Creasey Dagger.
On the 25th of October I am appearing in a double billing with Anne Featherstone , author of Walking in Pimlico at the Broadway Cinema Nottingham.
In the meantime I am working hard on the second novel. Does anyone know a good agent?
See www.leftlion.co.uk for billing timings.
Lowdham Methodist Church, Nottinghamshire
Rod Madocks will be interviewed by noted crime writer Stephen Booth for Lowdham Book Festival.
website: www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk
Rod Madocks will be interviewed by noted crime writer Stephen Booth for Lowdham Book Festival.
website: www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk
INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN BOOTH - AUTHOR OF THE COOPER & FRY DETECTIVE SERIES LOWDHAM BOOK FESTIVAL
27th JULY 2009.
I was privileged to be invited to the 10th Lowdham book festival and was interviewed in a public event by noted crime author Stephen Booth . It is always a pleasure to appear with Stephen and this time I had the novelty of submitting to his probing questions.
Of No Way To Say Goodbye Stephen observed, " If you want a rare glimpse into what really goes on inside a secure psychiatric hospital like Rampton or Broadmoor . This is the book for you."
Lowdham Methodist Church, Nottinghamshire
Rod Madocks will be interviewed by noted crime writer Stephen Booth for Lowdham Book Festival.
website: www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk
Rod Madocks will be interviewed by noted crime writer Stephen Booth for Lowdham Book Festival.
website: www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk
My life working with Britain's most dangerous killers
Article in the Nottingham Evening Post features on ThisIsNottingham website
Rod Madocks has worked in maximum security units housing some of the country's most prolific killers. His experiences provided him with a wealth of material for a fictional account of life on the inside. LYNETTE PINCHESS reports.
Rod Madocks has come into contact with some of Britain's most disturbed and dangerous killers. Working in maximum security hospitals gave him a unique insider's view of life in units like Rampton in north Notts – and the inspiration for a novel.
visit the website here
Article in the Nottingham Evening Post features on ThisIsNottingham website
Rod Madocks has worked in maximum security units housing some of the country's most prolific killers. His experiences provided him with a wealth of material for a fictional account of life on the inside. LYNETTE PINCHESS reports.
Rod Madocks has come into contact with some of Britain's most disturbed and dangerous killers. Working in maximum security hospitals gave him a unique insider's view of life in units like Rampton in north Notts – and the inspiration for a novel.
visit the website here
"No Way to Say Goodbye" Publication Date; 15th December 2009
Available from shops and on-line shops from December 22nd 2009
Launch January 2009.
29th November 2008 - Crime Afternoon
Featuring:
Rod Madocks
Rod Madocks has worked in forensic mental health and secure hospitals. He will be talking about the psychology of crime and criminals. His own first novel is set in a secure hospital.
Stephen Booth
Stephen Booth used to work for the Worksop Guardian but is now one of Britain’s best selling crime writers. His many novels are all set in the Peak District and have been translated into several languages.
Clare Littleford
Clare Littleford is the author of two psychological crime novels and one novella, all set in Nottingham. She is also part of the performance group Hazard Warning.
Tickets: £4 (£3.00 concessions)
including tea and biscuits
Mansfield Library
Westgate, Mansfield Nottinghamshire NG18 1NH
01623 627591.
Featuring:Rod Madocks
Rod Madocks has worked in forensic mental health and secure hospitals. He will be talking about the psychology of crime and criminals. His own first novel is set in a secure hospital.
Stephen Booth
Stephen Booth used to work for the Worksop Guardian but is now one of Britain’s best selling crime writers. His many novels are all set in the Peak District and have been translated into several languages.
Clare Littleford
Clare Littleford is the author of two psychological crime novels and one novella, all set in Nottingham. She is also part of the performance group Hazard Warning.
Tickets: £4 (£3.00 concessions)
including tea and biscuits
Mansfield Library
Westgate, Mansfield Nottinghamshire NG18 1NH
01623 627591.
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