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Historia Magazine features Moot
19 July 2024
Historia Magazine, the online magazine of the Historical Writers Association, has a terrific feature on Moot this month, giving some of the historical background to the event. You can read it here
27 June 2024
The Perthshire Advertiser has run a feature on Moot, in which I talk about my desire to record the voices of rural working class people in the 1930s, people like my parents, whose voices are traditionally not heard.
Read the article here
26 June 2024
Book Club Guides
Did you know that Book Clubs can obtain 20% discount on all my books from the publishers, Ringwood Publishing?
Just contact mail@ringwoodpublishing.com to arrange your purchases.
To help start the discussions in your Book Club, I have created Book Club guides for each of my novels, with a series of questions to get everyone talking.
Burials and Other Stories
Coming Autumn /Winter 2024
I am delighted to announce that Ringwood Publishing will later in the year be publishing my collection of short stories, Burials and Other Stories.
These are all based in Scotland and include a number of stories that have won national competitions.
I was a short story writer before I turned to novels, and I am immensely excited to have this collection coming into print.
Watch this space for more information.
Why I write Historical Fiction
Recently, to celebrate the launch of LA Kristiansen's second novel, Revenge of the Tyrants, I gave a brief talk on why I write historical fiction. You can hear the presentation above.
Ringwood Publishing Podcast
1st June 2024
To mark the launch of Moot, I did an interview with the Ringwood Publishing podcast, talking about the book and my writing. I had a great time, so have a listen
Launch of Moot
Strathearn Arts, Crieff, 26 May 2024
Neatly managing to dodge rain showers, we held a fantastic launch for Moot at Strathearn Arts in Crieff. This was a particularly exciting venue for me, because it is the old library building where all my earliest reading experiences were formed and where I eventually ended up working after becoming a librarian.
A knowledgeable and engaging audience made this a brilliant event, with a great Q&A. Moot had the best possible launch.
Hosting for Ringwood Publishing was Andrew Mackenzie (left) and leading the Q&A was Ian Spring of Rymour Books (right).
Photographs courtesy the fabulous writer Helen Grant, my equally fabulous cousin Fiona Calder and my spectacularly fabulous publishers, Ringwood Publishing.
Article on Moot in the Courier
The Courier did an excellent feature on the publication of Moot on 23 May 2024.
Coming soon - Moot
Moot will be launched at Strathearn Arts, Crieff, on 26th May 2024 at 4pm. FREE tickets can be obtained here.
I will be joined by publisher and writer Ian Spring to talk about Moot, read extracts and take questions from the audience.
Launch of Moot
26 May 2024
Moot will be launched at Strathearn Arts, Crieff, on 26th May 2024 at 4pm. FREE tickets can be obtained here.
I will be joined by publisher and writer Ian Spring to talk about Moot, read extracts and take questions from the audience.
Please come and join me!
Talk on Historical Fiction
Hillhead Library, 28th April 2024
I am delighted to announce that as part of the launch of LA Kristiansen's second novel, Revenge of the Tyrants, I will be giving a brief presentation on writing historical fiction. The event is free in -person at Hillhead Library and will be live-streamed on the Ringwood Publishing Facebook page.
Hillhead Library Writing Workshop
28 January 2024
I will be giving a short presentation on writing craft at a Writers' workshop in Hillhead Library, Glasgow, on 28th January.
If you're around, come along and hear me and three other fine novelists. I will be discussing the importance of keeping your readers engaged in the drama on your pages.
9 January 2024
Blog article on Short Story competition judging
In December 2023, I was honoured once again to be a judge in the Ringwood Publishing short story competition. We had a bumper entry and some outstanding stories were included. As I was reading, some common themes and issues emerged, and I've written about them on my blog, to maybe give some pointers for writers who may be encouraged to enter next year.
Special Christmas Offer
My publishers, Ringwood Publishing, are running a special offer for Christmas - buy Cuddies Strip and get Barossa Street half price. Perfect for some bookish Christmas presents...
Available until 31 December 2023.
Feature in the Courier
The Courier did a terrific feature on the Perth Noir event, with details of each participating author's books and work. Some interesting stuff on Cuddies Strip.
19 Nov 2023
Perth Noir, 18 November 2023
I am delighted to be speaking at the Perth Noir event in the Subud Centre, St Leonard's Place, Perth on Saturday afternoon, 3pm to 6pm.
Tickets are £7.50 and can be purchased from the link below.
Writing Historical Fiction
Despite horrendous weather, our Writing Historical Fiction event, featuring Flora Johnston, LA Kristiansen and Carol Margaret Davison in Typewronger Books, Edinburgh was a fantastic success, with standing room only.
Speaking event in Embra
Writing Historical Fiction: Forgotten Voices
I'm delighted to be part of a panel discussing Writing Historical Fiction in Edinburgh on November 13th as part of Book Week Scotland.
I shall be speaking with Flora Johnson, author of the brilliant What You Call Free, LA Kristiansen, whose Raise Dragon, set in 14th Century Scotland, was one of my favourite novels of 2021, and Carol Margaret Davison, whose Bodysnatcher takes us into the ghoulish world of Burke and Hare.
Join us at Typewronger on November 13th. It's going to be ace.
30 April 2023
First draft of Book Four is complete
The first draft of the fourth Bob Kelty Book, Barvick Falls, is complete, at 80,000 words. Lots to do still but it should be finished by mid to late summer, around the time of the publication of book three, Moot.
3 April 2023
Coming soon: the third Bob Kelty novel
The third in the Bob Kelty series will be published by Ringwood Publishing in late summer 2023.
Moot follows the adventures of Bob and Annie at the Third International Rover Scout Moot which took place at Monzie Castle, outside Crieff, in July 1939, just weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War.
When a dead body is found in a tent just outside the Moot campsite Bob is immediately suspicious but he finds that the authorities appear to have no interest in the incident and refuse to investigate. Curious, Bob begins his own investigation, and uncovers a hidden world of intrigue...
3 Dec 2022
Rob McInroy interview in Perthshire Magazine
Rob was delighted recently to be invited by the editors of Perthshire Magazine to do an interview and feature on his writing. The interview can be seen in the December 2022 edition of the magazine here:
The article also featured a rave review of Barossa Street. It is a "fast-paced crime drama" with a "compelling" central character in Bob Kelty. It has been "thoroughly researched and brings a bygone Perthshire back to life".
Bestselling Cuddies Strip
In June 2022, Cuddies Strip was the 6,000th bestselling book on the whole of Amazon, while the Kindle version was in the top 3,000.
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9 June 2022
READING GROUP GUIDES
30 May 2022
Download these free Reading Group Readers' Guides for Cuddies Strip and Barossa Street. Full of key questions to help your Reading Group get the most out of the books.
Reading Groups can obtain a 20% on both books from the publishers, Ringwood Publishing, by contacting mail@ringwoodpublishing.com
Rob's second novel, Barossa Street was launched on Zoom on 11th May 2022.
Attended by dozens of people on both Zoom and Facebook, the launch was a celebration of the second Bob Kelty novel.
Expertly chaired by Ellie Goodenough, the event featured Rob doing three readings from the novel and taking questions from Ellie and the audience.
Those attending discovered (kind of) why Rob chose Barossa Street as the venue for his crime story, and learned the errant swan that features in the novel really did wander across the town bridge in 1936.
A recording of the event is available on Rob's YouTube channel:
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