Adventure & Crime
An adventure is a story of a given protagonist who sets out on a remarkable or unexpected journey, event or experience to distant or epic places for a mission to accomplish. On the way, this person encounters so many obstacles and challenges to reach the destination. Normally, the characters and settings are hidden and they have some prizes. Examples of storylines here include narrow escapes, dangerous situations, and problems whose puzzles get answers through some exotic people, intelligence and skills and brave deeds.
Crime, on the other hand, is a story on a certain crime that was committed some time back or long ago or that is ongoing. A crime story may explain the criminal life of someone or some people in the form of action or adventure genres. It involves the commission of a crime, usually a murder, investigating the crime and the judgment or outcome thereafter. The end of a crime story is usually an arrest of the criminal or their death.
A History Of Crime & Adventure
The crime genre started to become popular in the 19th century whereby the stories did not have an organised way to conduct detectives. They lacked the police who could get into the crimes that people committed to providing solutions but rather had amateurs. Presently, apart from the crime stories are concentrated more in the structure than the characters - which the earlier writers emphasised.
Adventure stories also date back in the ancient days. The Genre grew so much and from the 19th century onwards, it has become the most popular of the fiction category. Some of the all-time adventure writers include Sir Walter Scott, H. Rider Haggard, Bronte Sisters and may more.
Short Stories
Short stories are enjoyable and can help the reader to identify different writing styles. It improves imagination scope and vocabulary. It additionally enhances your writing skills.
Are You A Spectacular
Storyteller?
Storyteller?
Now short storytelling is an art and even writing them takes a bit of practice to get to the core message and central focus, working within a tight framework. So, I thought I would invite you to share in my next big endeavour. This will take place in two parts so if you are a writer but enjoy curling up by the fire with a hot cupper and enjoy a nice story, I would love to invite you to become a Happy London Story Maker.
Well, what might this be I hear you say...Well, let me explain some more. We want to create a short story competition and make a beautiful creative hardback book of short stories with contemporary photographs. And to make sure every entry has been fairy read and rated, we need volunteer readers to pre-select and shortlist several stories for the judges to choose the finalists.
We would like to invite you to become a Happy London Story Maker (unless you want to wait a while and submit an entry into the competition). So here is the plan and what to do;
Each story will be up to 800 to 1000 words long. Good clean fiction. All you need to do to get involved is sign up and register to become a HappyLdn Story Maker.
Send an email to Clare marked ''I would like to become a HappyLDN Story Maker
to happylondon@gmx.co.uk
Looking forward to sharing the pleasures of reading with you!!
Adventure & Crime Authors
Andrzej Sapkowski
Born on 21st June 1948, Andrzej is a prolific polish fantasy adventure author. He is renowned for his work in the collection of books entitled “The Witcher” which he wrote as a short story to get into the Fantastyka science fiction and fantasy magazine contest. Since then, he has produced five novels and three short story collections under the same title. Andrzej Sapkowski’s work has earned him so many awards both in Poland and outside: he became the best Poland fantasy author in 1990. Some of the other awards include Zajdel Awards, Ignotus Award, Nike Award, and Sfinks Award.
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is a top-ranking fantasy and science fiction writer from America whose most notable work of the Cosmere universe in the novels “Mistborn Series” and “The Stormlight Archive.” He has also worked hard to finish “The Wheel of Time”, the high fantasy series written by Robert Jordan. Brandon started his writing career way back in his undergraduate career and had written a total of twelve novels by the year 2003.
James Patterson
James Patterson has sold over 300 million copies of his work that includes “Alex Cross”, “Women’s Murder”, “Daniel X”, “Michael Bennett”, “Maximum Ride”, “Witch and Wizard”, “NYPD Red” and “Private” series. This prominent American author entered into the books of history by becoming the first person to get one million of his e-books sold. He also takes pride as the highest-paid author in the Forbes’ list for three consecutive years.
Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a celebrated crime writer from Scotland with her best novels of Suspense series. The St. Hilda’s College graduate in English, wrote her first novel: “Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery” in 1987 and is the founder of Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. Most of her work is in four series namely: Kate Brannigan, Inspector Karen Pirie, Lindsay Gordon, and Tony Hill and Carol Jordan.
Wide Illumination
by author
Tom Rubens
''Set in the mid-1960s, this second novel in the trilogy shows Richard
Lane continuing his studies in English Literature at university.
These studies become a springboard for a frank sharing of
ideas with a circle of other male students. Their conversations are partly to do with moral attitudes and with differences in social position.''
A University Student's Encounter
During his first summer vacation,
he visits Germany and meets a
female German student named
Helga, with whom he develops an
intimate understanding, enriched
by sexual pleasure.
Available on Kindle
Authors & Their Stories
Peter James
Known internationally for his crime fiction writing, Peter James was born in 1948 to Cornelia James in Brighton. He started as a house cleaner for Orson Welles before he started to work as a screenwriter and film producer in Canada. He has written a total of over 35 novels including “The Roy Grace series”, an internationally best-selling series that has sold over 20 million copies globally. The series has also made him become United Kingdom’s Sunday Times number one for more than fifteen times. It the best-seller in the New York Times, France, Russia, Canada, and Germany. James has also done several supernatural thrillers, children novel “The perfect Murder and spy fiction. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling adds up as a British author, television producer, film producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Her outstanding work, Harry Potter fantasy series has been read all over the world besides earning her many awards. She has sold over 500 million copies of the Harry Potter series which has enabled her bag many awards and becoming the best-selling book series ever. J. K. Rowling is also a crime fiction under “Robert Galbraith” name.
A.G. Riddle
Before he started his writing career, A.G. Riddle was an internet guru whereby he founded a series of internet companies. As he was retiring, Riddle developed an interest in fiction writing and authored his first novel “The Atlantis Gene” which hit the market with a bang. Up to this time, he has sold more than three million copies in the whole world and its development to be a prominent motion picture is underway. The book has since then been translated into more than 20 languages. Other novels that he has written are Departure, Pandemic, and Winter world.
Ian Rankin
Another famous Scottish crime writer is Ian Rankin. Born in 1960, people know him from his novels, Inspector Rebus. Though he did not intend to be a crime witter, Ian Rankin has written twenty-five novels, one original graphic novel, two short story collections, and one novella and non-fiction books separately.
Calling Short Story Lovers!
We love to provide opportunities for talented podcasters with authentic content. We have an opportunity for podcasters with great content. All you have to do is read three of our short stories and submit your recording to our contact page through the link below:
We hope you enjoyed it, please do let us know which adventure crime story you have enjoyed the most.
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