The Bloody Scotland
International Crime Writing Festival is launching its own podcast which will
run from 28 March for an initial 12 episodes.
Going out on a Friday, the Bloody Scotland Podcast, will take the place
of the Bloody Scotland Book Club - which has been running since lockdown and
has over 2.9K members – forming a countdown to the festival programme launch.
Host duties will rotate between the authors on the Bloody Scotland board – Lin
Anderson, Craig Robertson, Abir Mukherjee and Gordon Brown aka Morgan Cry with
regular co-hosts Bloody Scotland Director Bob McDevitt and Digital Manager,
Dawn Geddes.
The first three episodes of the Bloody Scotland Podcast will feature Scottish
superstar crime writers Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre and Denise Mina. The
podcast will also elevate debut writers. In the same way Bloody Scotland's’
‘Crime in the Spotlight’ gives new authors the chance to share the stage with
established writers, each podcast will pair a debut writer with a more famous
one.
In the first episode, going out on Friday 28 March crime writer and board
member, Lin Anderson and festival director, Bob McDevitt will interview Val
McDermid before introducing debut writer, Richard Strachan, author of The
Unrecovered published by Raven Books. The following week Abir Mukherjee
and Dawn Geddes will interview Chris Brookmyre then have a quick chat with
debut author Rose McDonagh (One Came Back, Trapeze).
Director
Bob McDevitt said:
"Alongside our amazing headliners every year, Bloody Scotland has long
championed unpublished, debut and emerging writers, with Crime in the
Spotlight, Pitch Perfect and the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize as key pillars of
the festival programme We hope that the podcast will continue to introduce our
loyal audience to the very best in crime fiction."
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