Rob McInroy's Writing Blog

 Barossa Street, my follow-up to Cuddies Strip , will be published on 11th May by Ringwood Publishing . It is available for pre-order here ....

 I am delighted that Ringwood Publishing have contracted to publish my next novel, Barossa Street . Barossa Street is the follow-up to the...

 I am delighted to have been published by New Scottish Writing , in their 39th anthology. This is a volume I've been trying to get into ...

 Last night I did a talk with Tom Wood, former Deputy Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders on crime in 1935. Tom is the author of Ruxton: ...

 I finished the final draft of  Barossa Street , the follow-up to Cuddies Strip tonight. Bob Kelty, having recently resigned his commission...

I'm delighted to have been nominated for this year's Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for the best fir...

I'm very excited to be speaking with fellow Ringwood Publishing authors, Simon McLean and Tom Wood at a Scottish Book Trust Book Week ...

My new novel, Cuddies Strip , will be published by Ringwood Press later this year. You can pre-order a signed copy and have guaranteed del...

My story, Zoroman's Cave, was runner up in the 2019 Raven Short Story Competition . The judges said of it: ‘Zoroman’s Cave’ is a th...

I'm delighted to have won the Darling Axe First Page Challenge for the opening page of my novel Cloudland. Having seen the stories that ...

I have a flash piece published in the new volume by Palm-Sized Press . It's adapted from my first novel, which I'm currently...

A flash piece, "Harbinger", adapted from my first novel Cloudland , has been accepted by Palm Sized Press for their latest e...

Figures for the past two days: Rejections: six Queries to agents abandoned with no reply: two Submissions: thirteen And I still have a...

I'm pleased to have won third prize in the latest Flash 500 flash fiction competition with my story, Momma . This is a story that is c...

I had a wonderful evening on Friday when I attended the prize giving for the Bedford Interational Writing Competition , for which I had two ...

I'm delighted to have been chosen as one of ten winners of a week-long crime writing residential course in the Bradford Literary Festiva...

My flash fiction, The Gamekeeper's Telling , was Highly Commended in the London International Story Prize and there is an interview with...

I have two stories short listed in the Bedford International Writing Prize this year - J oss'n'Jules Forever and The Weight of Snow...

Please to have won third place in the HISSAC Flash competition 2018 for my story Peewit , and to have been highly commended in the Short Sto...

I'm very pleased to have won second place in this year's Segora Short Story Competition for my humorous story, The Birth of God. He...