As I’ve mentioned before, If I Die Before I Wake has been shortlisted for an annual award given by the British Crime Writers’ Association for best thriller of the year.
It’s still a bit surreal to write that sentence!
The award is called the Steel Dagger and is sponsored by the estate of Ian Fleming.
The Fleming estate emailed me recently and asked me a few questions – here’s the little interview on their website.
Today If I Die Before I Wake is proudly sporting a jazzy orange flag on Amazon, because it is a NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER!
The rankings go up and down depending on prices and offers etc but I’ll take my successes where I can get them. Who knows how long it will last, but I am pretty chuffed to see it as number one in the “medical thrillers” section today.
When I was at university, I studied English Literature and somehow ended up living with not one, not two, but SEVEN medical students. I loved (and still love) them to bits but jeez, they could spend hours talking about things I had zero understanding of. Weird medical conditions, hospital politics, F2s and ST1s and …. yada yada yada.
If I Die Before I Wake has made it onto the shortlist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
I am still bouncing around with excitement after finding out last night – I’ve been lucky to have an amazing response from my readers far and wide already, so to be recognised like this within the industry as well is mindblowing. Hard work pays off, I guess?
Yesterday I started being tagged in photos on Instagram of a beautiful new Polish book called Czy umrę, nim się zbudzę?
This, friends, is the Polish translation of If I Die Before I Wake!
Photo by @zupa.czyta on Instagram
It has been translated by Justyna Kukian and published by Sonia Draga. You can buy a copy here.
If you want to be in with a chance of winning not one, but two copies of my debut novel If I Die Before I Wake, head over to my Instagram feed.
If you’ve been thinking of downloading If I Die Before I Wake onto your Kindle, now is the time to do it.
Until the end of August it will be on sale for a bargainous 99p as it has been picked for the Kindle Summer Sale.
I had some amazing news this morning – If I Die Before I Wake has been longlisted for a major award.
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) awards ten Dagger awards each year, and my debut novel has been longlisted in the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger category, for thrillers. Continue reading
I’ve had a quieter few weeks cracking on with book two (I’m 25% through the first draft!) so it was lovely to get out to chat about If I Die Before I Wake again this week.
I did an event as part of The Bath Festival with fellow debut authors Guy Gunaratne and Kim Sherwood and we had a great evening discussing our roads to publication, our writing processes, inspirations and everything else in between.
World Book Night is coming up at the end of this month and I am thrilled to be taking part.
I will be appearing alongside Joff Winterhart and Yasmeen Ismail at Bristol Central Library on April 23.
Thank you to everyone who has bought and read If I Die Before I Wake and made my publishers think I’m worth investing in… they’ve just bought my next two books!
Now I’ve just got to write them.
