I will be doing this next week. Plus a little Q&A. SO, who knows when the Summer starts? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Thought so.

Good afternoon from a chilly Dublin. It was a glorious week of hail and wind and rain wasn’t it? No? Okay then.

April 25th I will begin teaching a six-week course on crime writing; all relevant information can be found – here.  Hopefully by then I will have had time for a haircut and won’t look quite so wild and woolly.

In other news, the official release date for The Chosen, paperback version, is May 1st, which naturally means another round ...

On Saturday 24th of March I will be heading to lovely Waterford to take part in the Waterford Writers’ Weekend.
For those interested in attending I will be holding a workshop in the Central Library from 2pm.
Details of other events can be found here.

I’ve been to this festival before and it’s always terrific fun with lovely people, should you get a chance to stop by and say hello, please do.

Here’s an interesting artice– I think– on ebooks and price. See you guys tonight at H&F!

Folks, next week, Feb 22nd contains the following – “Crime Night! Hodges Figgis kindly invite you to a Crime Fiction Night taking place in our store on Dawson Street, Dublin 2, on the 22nd of February at 7.30pm. We have three well known Irish authors taking part: Declan Burke, Arlene Hunt and Conor Brady. The night promises to be an interesting one, with some extract readings and a questions-and-answers session ...

“Her seventh novel, The Chosen, grabs the readers’ attention right from the opening pages and her sharp, unpredictable plot refuses to let go.”

Rest of the review can be found here- Review.

How is everyone? I hope we’re all past the ‘oh no Christmas was only yesterday’ blues.

Arlene

The gracious Elizabeth A White reviews The Chosen on her site.
I cannot tell you how gratifying it is to read that I have not make a hames of accents ( I worried a lot about this). I did a lot of re-writing and constant replaying of taped conversations to make sure I did not turn a rural American accent into a pastiche, so I am delighted when I read – “Hunt did extensive on location research for ...

Muggy head and tired feet from a whole lot of dancing aside, how nice to start the New Year with a very tasty review. All I want to do is tell stories and have people enjoy them, so this has made me grin ear to ear.
Happy New Year everyone, let’s worry about diets and stuff later in the day.

I sat down a while ago with fellow scribe Declan Burke to talk about The Chosen and the piece appears in today’s Irish Examiner,

Bearing in mind the day that’s in it, I’d like to take the time to wish all of you a very Happy New Year, see you in 2012 and take care.
Arlene

Arlene Hunt’s latest is a deadly game of Chase.

Horrific Massacres of children have stunned the world in recent years – from that at Columbine High School in 1999 to the harrowing slighter of teenagers at the Norwegian summer camp this year. Irish crime writer Arlene Hunt uses similar sickening violence to provide the dramatic opening to The Chosen, which is set in Rockville, a small American town.
Jessie Conway is a teacher at the local high school. Her ordinary appearance ...