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Martyn Waites
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Martyn Waites

Born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Martyn Waites worked as a professional actor before becoming a writer. A former Writer in Residence at Huntercombe Young Offenders' Institution and HMP Chelmsford, he currently runs arts-based workshops for socially excluded teenagers.

Excerpt:
Foreword from The Mercy Seat
Dec 17, 2011
Speak no Evil will be released on May 13, 2010 in eBook
May 13, 2010
Speak no Evil is now available in eBook
May 13, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from White Riot
Mar 31, 2009
Mar 31, 2009
White Riot will be released on January 07, 2008 in
Jan 07, 2008
White Riot is now available in
Jan 07, 2008
Bone Machine will be released on January 02, 2007 in
Jan 02, 2007
Bone Machine is now available in
Jan 02, 2007
White Room will be released on March 07, 2005 in
Mar 07, 2005
White Room is now available in
Mar 07, 2005
Born Under Punches will be released on March 01, 2004 in
Mar 01, 2004
Born Under Punches is now available in
Mar 01, 2004

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Kent on Sunday, March 21, 2012
...will be in Chatham next week to talk about the art of thriller writing. Authors Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites will be at Chatham Community Hub on Thursday, March 29 at 7.30pm. Mark Billingham’s first crime novel was published in 2001. Sleepyhead...
Alwatan daily, January 30, 2012
...the crime thriller MA to be of the same caliber". Authors are currently being approached, with the novelists Martyn Waites and Barry Forshaw already signed up. "We take about 12 to 14 students each year on the literary course and would do about the same...
Guardian.co.uk, January 27, 2012
...the crime thriller MA to be of the same calibre". Authors are currently being approached, with the novelists Martyn Waites and Barry Forshaw already signed up. "We take about 12 to 14 students each year on the literary course and would do about the same...
Yorkshire Evening Post, April 19, 2012
...Author Martyn Waites East Coast trains and best-selling author Martyn Waites have teamed up to launch the first ever crowd-sourced real time short crime story using the social media site Twitter. Starting...
Stray FM, April 19, 2012
...Train operator East Coast and a bestselling author have joined forces for an unusual project in North Yorkshire. Martyn Waites, who is this year's reader in residence at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, part of the Harrogate...
Northeast Journal, April 18, 2012
...as a telesales operator, from acting up and down the country to being a best-selling author, crime fanatic Martyn Waites has worked his way up the career ladder to earn his status as a crime writer. ?I started writing seriously at around 28 or 29 years...
Peterborough Evening Telegraph, April 18, 2012
...TRAIN operator East Coast has teamed up with best-selling author Martyn Waites to encourage Peterborough commuters to write their own crime story - on the social media site Twitter. Martyn, who will post the opening 140 character line to the story...
Kent on Sunday, March 21, 2012
...will be in Chatham next week to talk about the art of thriller writing. Authors Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites will be at Chatham Community Hub on Thursday, March 29 at 7.30pm. Mark Billingham’s first crime novel was published in 2001. Sleepyhead...
PublishersWeekly.com, November 18, 2011
...in her own life.  She sees the Kill Bill Soundtrack as a theme for her life.  Martyn Waites whose theme song is Boy Child, came from the UK especially for this conference, starts out writing from the point of view of wanting to know his topic better...
Falcata Times, September 15, 2011
...write in more than one genre they tend to use a pseudonym and as such this is how Martyn Waites arrived on our doorstep as Crime Writer Tania Carver (with two books written in association with his wife.) As usual with our reading habits we dug into the...