A warrant has been issued this week for the arrest of a pensioner who threw ink over a best-selling author. No, I'm not making it up. According to The Times yesterday, Sandra Botham of Sunderland failed to turn up to be sentenced for her attack on Val McDermid, author of The Wire in the Blood, at a book signing last year. You may remember that The Wire in the Blood was a successful British crime detection series starring Robson Green that ran from 2002 to 2009.
The defendant apparently held a 28 year long grudge against the author who once wrote of a woman called Sandra 'shaped like a Michelin Man.'
Meanwhile, the legal firm that leaked J K Rowling as the true author of 'Robert Galbraith's' crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling has had to pay out 'a considerable sum' to charity at her request after one of its partners passed on the gossip. According to today's Daily Mail the author was entitled to the expectation that her secret would be safe.'
Looking more closely at the cover of JKR's latest offering I found this quote 'The Cuckoo's Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place...' The author? None other than Val McDermid.
Just a coincidence? Or could it be that truth really is stranger than fiction after all?
The defendant apparently held a 28 year long grudge against the author who once wrote of a woman called Sandra 'shaped like a Michelin Man.'
Meanwhile, the legal firm that leaked J K Rowling as the true author of 'Robert Galbraith's' crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling has had to pay out 'a considerable sum' to charity at her request after one of its partners passed on the gossip. According to today's Daily Mail the author was entitled to the expectation that her secret would be safe.'
Looking more closely at the cover of JKR's latest offering I found this quote 'The Cuckoo's Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place...' The author? None other than Val McDermid.
Just a coincidence? Or could it be that truth really is stranger than fiction after all?
4 comments:
Maybe you should do crime fiction with those detective skills....
Now why didn't I think of that? Can you have historical romantic crime?? :)
There's plenty of crossover in genres these days... Go for it! :)
Good idea, Nikki-ann - I could start a new trend... :)
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