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Gideon Pine retweeted
Just in time for Bloody Scotland, I’m pleased to let you know that my debut novel, A Gift Before Dying, has been selected for an Amazon UK Kindle deal for the month of September. The kindle edition will be available for 99p from 1st-30th September. #BloodyScotland
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Great noir set in the world of college football. Strongly recommend!!
MB42 out in paperback today. Tune in to @SECNetwork @finebaum at 330pm CST to hear me talking with Paul about the release and what’s coming next 🏈💰🔥
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Gideon Pine retweeted
MB42 out in paperback today. Tune in to @SECNetwork @finebaum at 330pm CST to hear me talking with Paul about the release and what’s coming next 🏈💰🔥
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Gideon Pine retweeted
I'm so excited to announce that I'm going to be a panelist at this year's Bouchercon mystery and crime fiction convention in Calgary this October. More details to come!
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The RCMP Quarterly magazine wrote a glowing review of my debut novel, A Gift Before Dying (Crown/Penguin Random House). Thanks so much to Gibson Glavin and all the RCMP officers who have messaged with your support for the book. It means a lot. 👮👮♀️
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Gideon Pine retweeted
I've opened three more seats in my workshop and reduced the price to $225 Canadian to fill the seats. Come polish up your opening chapter with a Penguin Random House thriller/mystery author.
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Gideon Pine retweeted
Big thanks to Sam Weibe and @John_Orpheus for the shout to my debut novel, A Gift Before Dying, on CBC's The Next Chapter yesterday as a great summer mystery read for 2026! @cbcbooks cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-6…
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I'm excited to be heading to Toronto next week as a panelist for the Motive Crime and Mystery Festival as part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) (@festofauthors)
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A big round of applause is in order! So cool to see @MalcolmKempt debut A GIFT BEFORE DYING back in the NYT!!
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“Malcolm Kempt has done what often seems impossible - a debut that is absolutely brilliant” … Bravo, Malcolm!!
The Globe and Mail's glowing review of A Gift Before Dying (Crown, 2026) from last week—"a debut that is absolutely brilliant." As an author from Newfoundland setting a novel in Canada, I'm humbled and very grateful! 🇨🇦
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An important life lesson from @GrantGinder
.@GrantGinder has maybe done the best @nytimesbooks "By the Book" interview I've ever read.
Sampling: "For me, 85 percent of being a writer is learning the hard way that the great idea I had after two glasses of wine is not, in fact, a great idea."
nytimes.com/2026/02/19/books…
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Gideon Pine retweeted
So cool! The audiobook for my debut novel, A Gift Before Dying, has been chosen as Spotify's Editors' Pick of the the month for February. Listen to it here: open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5I…
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“If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine,” she said. “Eventually, readers will not care.”
PLEASE CARE
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Lee Child has sold 200 million books, which makes him one of the best-selling authors in history.
Here's his advice for people who want to sell lots and lots of books:
"In order to sell a lot of books, you've got to push the boundary outward to the outer rings of Saturn... to the audience of people that read one or two books a year. And you've also got to satisfy the habitual, skillful, and literate readers in the center at the same time. But the people on the outskirts are not habitual readers.
Structurally, what you've got to do is have a style that is both palatable and somewhat enjoyable to the habitual readers in the center, but also useful to the people on the outside.
I spend a lot of time concentrating on rhythm, the rhythm of a sentence, because a book is however many thousands of sentences in a row, and you've got to make it so that each sentence has a rhythm, and that rhythm must always be tripping forward, forward, forward.
It's about propulsion. It's about creating a style the experienced reader can appreciate. But for the people on the outside, the non-habitual readers, I have my hand gently on their back, pushing them through.
They don't notice. They're not aware of it. But I'm easing them through the process of finishing the book."
Lee Child is the man behind the Jack Reacher series. He's sold more than 200 million books, and two of his books were adapted into movies starring Tom Cruise.
How popular are his books? In the UK, his series has sold more copies than J.K Rowling did with Harry Potter on Amazon. So at this point, you basically can't talk about contemporary crime and thriller books without talking about Lee Child.
This interview is all about how he wrote that Jack Reacher series. To the best of my knowledge, it's the deepest interview he's ever done about his writing process.
Timestamps:
0:30 Writing stories in America
7:26 You don't need an outline
12:50 Writing one book per year
17:57 Why the 60s were so creative
18:56 The business of writing
23:05 The key to page-turner books
38:25 How to write good dialogue
43:15 Where to start / end a book
52:18 Writing a violent scene
56:56 Using clothes to reveal character
1:00:43 Why the UK has so many good writers
I've shared the full conversation below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the links in the first reply tweet.
Enjoy!
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Gideon Pine retweeted
So stoked to share that I wrote an article for People magazine. people.com/malcolm-kempt-fre…
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The ‘Malcolm Cole’ hiccup aside, this review is so amazing!! Congratulations, @MalcolmKempt! With the snow storm of the decade coming this weekend, I recommend hunkering down with A GIFT BEFORE DYING.
Plus Jenna Blum’s “Murder Your Darlings” and Malcolm Cole’s “A Gift Before Dying.” on.wsj.com/49CZORn
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Gideon Pine retweeted
So stoked to see my book at the top of this list! crimereads.com/10-new-books-… @CrimeReads @Inkwellmgmt @CrownPublishing
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