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Jason Monaghan

@Jasonthriller

Thriller writer, non-fiction author and archaeologist

 South Yorkshire
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Joined April 2012
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Fab weekend @SedberghBooktwn for Death in the Dales with many friends @The_CWA Full report here tinyurl.com/DeathinDales26

Much Death in the Dales

Crime writer talks, murder mystery play in Sedbergh Book Town

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Where's Belize, you may ask, and is it worth visiting? Read my latest travel blog Belize Belize – Land of the Maya – Jason Monaghan
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Back from the second Death in the Dales in Sedbergh @SedberghBooktwn monaghanfoss.com/2025/10/20/…
(More) Death in the Dales

(More) Death in the Dales

Death in the Dales returned for a second year, ably organised by Jean Briggs and Sedbergh Book Town. Tucked away beneath the brooding Howgills and heavy grey skies, Sedbergh hosted a weekend of tal…

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Death on the Dales @SedberghBooktwn kicks off with Martin Edwards in conversation with MW Craven
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Perhaps the only piece you'll read on X today which has not been made up, scraped, cloned, created by AI or auto-scheduled. monaghanfoss.com/2025/10/13/…

The Day the Internet Died

In 1997 I wrote a crime novel in which villains exploited this thing called the Internet – it was science fiction, I was told, so was never published. In 2025 it would be old hat. I was an ea…

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A suitably Halloweenish image for my third and last blog on #marketing your #nonfiction book. monaghanfoss.com/2025/10/05/…
Marketing – The Dark Arts

Marketing – The Dark Arts

#17 in an occasional series on writing non-fiction If you are self-publishing or are with a small press who will play ball, you can employ a number of sophisticated strategies, particularly if prom…

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The second of three blogs on marketing your non-fiction book monaghanfoss.com/2025/09/12/…
Twenty First Century Book Marketing

Twenty First Century Book Marketing

#16 in an occasional series on writing non-fiction As marketing is such a big subject, I’ve spread it across three blogs. Here we have a quick look at the mechanics of your book marketing pla…

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No.15 in my series on writing non-fiction comes to the toughest bit of all - marketing monaghanfoss.com/2025/09/07/…

Book Marketing – the Basics

Introduction to marketing for authors of non fiction books

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How to get published - no.14 in my series on writing non fiction monaghanfoss.com/2025/08/25/…
Getting Published

Getting Published

#14 in an Occasional Series on writing non-fiction If you are an aspiring novelist, this is where your dreams can die. A minority of people who start writing a novel succeed in completing a readabl…

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Crime Reading Month was a whirl #pickupapageturner @CrimeReaders @ERLibraries monaghanfoss.com/2025/06/30/…
Festival Month

Festival Month

The name’s Monaghan, Jason Monaghan. Conference Season morphs into Crime Reading Month and I was off around Yorkshire talking at library events. First stop was Wakefield, with panel sessions …

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Are you a mystery or thriller fan in east Yorkshire? I'm giving free talks at Willerby Library at 10am on Thursday 19th, then North Bridlington at 2pm. #pickupapageturner @CrimeReaders @ERLibraries
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I'm speaking at three events during National Crime Reading Month #pickupapageturner monaghanfoss.com/2025/06/02/…

Crime Reading Month

June is National Crime Reading Month, with events being held at libraries and bookshops all over the country. I’ll be appearing at three events. The first is a free all-day event at Wakefield…

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Reflections on what it's really like working on an #archaeological dig monaghanfoss.com/2025/05/26/…
Life on the Dig

Life on the Dig

Archaeological digs often feature in novels, or are portrayed on films or documentaries such as Digging for Britain. But if you imagine your own job portrayed in a seven minute TV slot, or serving …

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Just back from @CrimeFest Bristol. Here are my key take-aways from the event. monaghanfoss.com/2025/05/19/…
Conference Season – Crimefest, Bristol

Conference Season – Crimefest, Bristol

Four days of panels and author interviews, up to three parallel sessions and a lively atmosphere where writers and readers of crime fiction mingle in equal quantities; that’s Crimefest. I cou…

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It's Conference Season! And here's the first write up monaghanfoss.com/2025/04/20/…

Conference Season – Alderney

Suddenly we’re out of winter and into conference season. It’s a joyful time of travel, meeting friends and colleagues, and talking writing or archaeology (and sometimes both). Conferences and festi…

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Stressed, Twitterverse? Need to work on your book but have a holiday too? I tried a cruise for the first time monaghanfoss.com/2025/03/02/…

Cruising Solo

Many people were surprised when I made last minute decision to go a cruise this January, not least myself. I’m unhappy on boats, dislike crowds, avoid organised fun and hate tipping culture. …

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With the growth of AI answers online, I did a little experiment and the implications are informative for anyone with a public persona monaghanfoss.com/2025/01/12/…
What Does AI Know About You?

What Does AI Know About You?

AI answers are now appearing on Google searches. I don’t trust them, wonder where they get their data from and always dive in and look for references myself. As an experiment I went into R…

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Happy New Year, but grateful to look back on a year of writing, archaeology and travel. monaghanfoss.com/2025/01/01/…

Happy Old Year

2024 has whizzed past and I finished it at home with a particularly nasty flu that dodged around the jab, so those Old Langs had to Sine themselves. The year was packed with writing, travel, archae…

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A few of the books that stood out this year monaghanfoss.com/2024/12/22/…

Books of the Year

Here’s a selection of the books I’ve read this year which stand out in the memory. Not all are ‘new’ as I read what I come across. These are all books read for pleasure, and…

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Seasons greetings to my writer friends, with the wish your ragged manuscript soon starts to look like a book. monaghanfoss.com/2024/12/17/…

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…a Book

I’ve just pitched into another draft of my next non-fiction book, which has the working title A Roman Small Fort on Alderney. It’s the result of research and excavations stretching back…

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