The cop who fell to earth
Former detective Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force at 18 until he retired suffering from PTSD many years later. Gary Jubelin has interviewed him for the I catch killers podcast but there is much …
Hyde Park: A Story of Lawless Beauty
Since the 1790s, Sydney’s Hyde Park has been a favourite place for locals and visitors alike to escape the hustle and bustle of city life and enjoy a sunny corner. However, by night, the park …
WHODUNNIT? Solve a murder mystery
The State Library has become a backdrop for murder. There is a body bag in the foyer of the Mitchell Library. Who has died and who is the murderer? An active crime scene full of evidence …
Pitch to an Agent
IF you have a completed manuscript or are well advanced on your book, BAD offers you the opportunity to talk to literary agent Daniel Pilkington for a short pitch session (5 minutes). If you’re at …
Pitch to a Publisher
IF you have a completed manuscript or are well advanced on your book, BAD offers you the opportunity to talk to top fiction publisher Anna Valdinger from Harper Collins for a short pitch session (5 …
No Longer Getting Away with Murder
The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes From the late 1970s to the early 1990s more than 80 men died or disappeared in what looked like an epidemic of gay hate crimes. Many …
Attack of the Killer Kiwis: Five NZ writers
What makes Kiwi crime fiction from across the ditch different from Australian crime fiction? Is it the setting? But what if the book is not set in Aotearoa New Zealand but in New York? Is …
The outer limits where writers won’t go
‘Don’t kill the dog’ may be the unwritten but oft broken rule of crime fiction, but are there other limits that writers face? Are there topics to be avoided? When is too much violence in a …
Exposing denial: indigenous massacres
The real story of the Frontier Wars and massacres of Indigenous people following the arrival of colonists in 1788 is only beginning to be told. Historians and writers Kate Auty, Tony Birch, Stephen Gapps and …