One of the committee members of Self-Pub Fest (and chair of BeaconLit), 
Dave Sivers will be moderating the crime panel at the 26th April 2026 festival.
Dave grew up in West London and has been writing all his life, including columns and articles in The Bucks Herald, The Leighton Buzzard Observer, and regional magazines, as well as short stories in Take a Break magazine and other publications.
His books include the popular crime fiction series featuring the Aylesbury Vale detectives, DI Lizzie Archer and DS Dan Baines.
The Scars Beneath the Soul and Dead in Deep Water were both top three bestsellers in the Amazon Kindle Serial Killers chart, and Price to Pay is the seventh in the series and his twelfth published title.
His DI Nathan Quarrel books are set in Hertfordshire.
Dave lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, Chris, and is a founder of the annual BeaconLit festival, one of the Self-Pub Fest’s chosen charities.
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