From the Tart City Newsletter:

Kentish Town Library, London NW5 – February 19th, 7.00pm
Out in the Sticks, The Courtyard, Hereford – Feb 27th
Leominster Library, Herefordshire – February 27th, 7pm
Streatham Library, London SW16 – February 29th, 7pm
Tonbridge Library, Kent – March 4th, 6.30pm
Essex Book Festival, Braintree Library – March 6th, 8pm
Carnegie Library, Herne Hill, London SE24 – Mar 10th, 6.30pm
The Pineapple, Kentish Town, London NW5 – Mar 13th, 8pm
Oxford Literary Festival – April 4th, 8pm
Hexham Book Festival – May 4th, 5pm

But for those of us not in the UK, there’s an extract to download. Also an extract from Lauren Henderson’s Kiss Me, Kill Me the first in a YA series.

What is Tart Noir?
“Tart. It’s a potent four-letter word. Sweet, sour, sharp, sexy, bad, with a touch of cheesecake. It seemed to sum up the detectives in our segment of the crime fiction genre, the independent-minded female sleuths who are tough enough to take on thugs and corrupt cops, tender enough to be moved by tough, tender men (or women, as the case may be). These are neofeminist women, half Philip Marlowe, half femme-fatale, who make their own rules, who think it’s entirely possible to save the world while wearing a drop-dead dress and four-inch heels.”

Maybe they’ll tour Australia as part of some writing festival… fingers crossed!

Jealous!

Kerry, do you go to many readings/writing events? I always seem to find a reason not to go so this year… I’m going to something (but not the Writers Festival; too literary).

especially if there’s drinks and nibblies!

Found a crime festival in Melbourne that looks good enough to tempt me.

well, if you find anything that includes Mike Ripley – Do Not Tell Me because I’d sulk for at least three days.