Gary Dalkin

@garydalkin.bsky.social

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UK editor & writer. I write every month for Writing Magazine. Bournemouth Writing Festival. Organising Chaos. Author Events. Editor-at-large at Cadence Publishing. Lots more, including contact details: www.tothelastword.com

Author Linda Liebrand standing holding a copy of her novel for children aged 8-12, Wiilda and the Troll Trials, which was published on 2 July 2025.
social media graphic for Author Events crime writers panel, 24 June 2025.
Social media image for blog post Romance & Frankenstein by Gary Dalkin on AuthorEvents.
Cover of The Heroine of Auschwitz by Mark deMeza, sequel to The Thirteenth Child.
Cover of The Survivor by James Herbert. The image of a crashing, burning jetliner is merged with that of a man's head.
Organising Chaos: Turn a Messy Draft into a Publishable Book, with Sophie Beal & Gary Dalkin at the Bournemouth Writing Festival, 26 April 2025
The covers of six books written by Jane Goodall
Article by Gary Dalkin and Festival Director Domnic Wong about Bournemouth Writing Festival, published in the May 2025 issue of Writing Magazine
The cover of the paperback edition of The Thirteenth Child by Mark deMeza.
A photo of an abandoned wardrobe on a street corner. Or is it?
Cover of SOLD by Sue Barrow, published by Cadence Publishing.
ElanorMcBay, NickBeal, AlexStone (The Perfect Daughter), SophieBeal, director of Cadence Publishing, Steve Couch (Foul and Fair) and Gary Dalkin at last night's 2025 Bournemouth Writing Festival launch. Photo by BWF director Dominic Wong.
Bournemouth Writing Festival networking meeting with Dr Curie Scott
1956 book club edition of My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.
Photo of JRR Tolkien in Branksome Chine in Poole, taken in the early 1970s.
The cover of the book A Dream Come True: The Collaboration of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, by Stephan Eicke, edited by Gary Dalkin, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in September 2025.
Photo of the author Louisa May Alcott
22/11/63 by Stephen King
First edition of JG Ballard's Empire of The Sun (1984)
Cover of The Black Tower by PD James.