Aunt natasha gagged bondage4/5/2024 ![]() This is a very difficult question to answer because, as a reader, I'd always been a bit reluctant to buy anthologies of short stories. How important is it, do you think, for short stories to keep getting published in light of the reluctance for publishers to issue such collections? You contributed a short story for Crimes Of Identity: The CWA Anthology. Doing gigs as one of a group like ours is much easier than doing them alone, and the long trek back in the dark turns into a party rather than an exhausting flog. They're all great writers – completely different of course – and very good fun. ![]() It's partly that the other Suspects have become such good friends, and partly that I've learned so much from them all. How do you find being a part of The Unusual Suspects author collective helps with the promotion of your work?īeing one of the Unusual Suspects has been terrific. Talk whizzed from one side of the table to the other, and some very good jokes were made. We had a great evening last Sunday with the programming committee coming to dinner in my house. One of the joys is that everyone involved is such fun and so helpful. I'm thoroughly enjoying the chairing role, but I have two very hard acts to follow in Val McDermid and Mark Billingham. Look for news on the Harrogate International Festival website. And we are in the process of finalising the programme now. As you probably know, special guests include Val McDermid, Frederick Forsyth, Lee Child and Harlan Coben. Plans for Harrogate 2007 are shaping up well. How are things shaping up for next year’s Harrogate Crime Writing Festival? Are you enjoying the experience of being Festival Chair, 2007? Natasha is also Chair for the 2007 Harrogate Crime Writers Festival. In her latest Trish Maguire novel, Gagged & Bound (Simon & Schuster), Natasha Cooper explores the full destructive power of the wrong words spoken at the wrong time and creates such menace it is impossible not to keep turning the pages.
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