HAYLING Island author Pauline Rowson has achieved a long-held ambition of joining one of the UK's most prestigious crime writing organisations, the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain.
The association’s members include such literary luminaries as Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell and Jeffrey Archer.
Pauline – pictured – burst on to the crime-writing scene last year with the publication of Tide of Death and In Cold Daylight.
Tide of De
ath was chosen as one of the Best Crime Fiction Reads 2006 by Amazon and introduced her fictional detective, Andy Horton, who is based at Portsmouth CID.
Her latest novels published include the thriller In For The Kill and the second DI Andy Horton novel Deadly Waters, which has also just been released in the United States.
Pauline said: ‘I’m absolutely thrilled to have been elected as a member to such a prestigious organisation. It has been a long-held ambition of mine and to think that I can now rub shoulders with so many crime writers I have admired for such a long time is great.’
Pauline sets all her novels in the Solent area but she enjoys an international readership.
The CWA was founded in 1953 by one of the authors Rowson read avidly in her teens, John Creasey. It organises the annual Dagger Awards that celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing.
The association has more than 450 members, all of whom are writers of fiction and non-fiction. To be eligible an author must have had at least one book published by a bona fide publisher. The association is committed to the support of professional writers.
