Award-winning author Denise Beddows has a background in research, investigation and intelligence analysis.
Having taken early retirement from a career which enabled her to work and play in twenty countries across four continents, she nowadays writes, as Denise Beddows, crime/spy thrillers and true crime, and, as DJ Kelly, biographical fiction and local history.
A member of the Society of Authors and the Crime Writers Association, she regularly contributes articles to local, national and international press and journals, reviews books for publishers and e-zines, and is a volunteer researcher for her local history and heritage group.
A trained and experienced public speaker, she regularly gives talks on different topics to a variety of community groups and at literary festivals.
She is the instigator and co-organiser of ‘Chiltern Kills’ Crime Writing Festival in Gerrards Cross.
Her first four novels featuring MI5’s Counter-espionage team made Amazon’s top ten best sellers in their genre. ‘Shearwater Point’, an Amazon No 1 best seller, also won the Chill With A Book readers’ Premium Award.
Denise can be found on social media as well as:
Below are the recordings from the panels Denise has kindly taken part in…
The 11am: Crime panel, the second panel of the 25 Jan 2026 Festival …
And the 2pm: Non-fiction panel, the fifth panel of the 25 Jan 2026 Festival …
#3a Hosted by Self-Pub Fest founder Morgen Bailey, on Monday 23rd February 2026: the sessions was on plotting vs pantsing ~ Denise Beddows, Jack Chandler, John Lynch.  Poet and novelist Lee Benson joined us as sadly Alan Meredith and David Wake couldn’t be with us for that session.
#4 Monday 2nd March 2026 authors Andrea D Woolhead ~ BB Elsin ~ Denise Beddows ~ Graeme Cumming joined Morgen to talk about characters
#6 Monday 16th March: the panel for plots ~ Cristina Loggia ~ David Wake ~ Denise Beddows, hosted by Morgen. (unfortunately Denise’s video wasn’t working)…
#9 Monday 6th April: beginnings ~ with BB Elsin ~ Denise Beddows, Esther Chilton
And do watch Morgen’s chat with Denise on YouTube about her writing journey...
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