Tag: crime writing
How TV and Film Influence My Writing
‘How do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? No, we begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over you, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the thing you want?’ For a generation of film lovers those words were etched into our brains […]
Crime Fiction: Why I Love The Golden Age
I have always loved crime. I love reading about it. Fiction or non-fiction. Classic Golden Age mysteries to the intricacies of cyber-crime, polite tea with the vicar to the goriest thrillers. I love a crime story. I love the puzzles. I like the characters. I’m intrigued by the unusual methods. I’m excited by the chase. […]
How My Probation Career Influenced My Writing
It’s always hard to know, isn’t it, which came first? The chicken or the egg. And that’s how I feel about my life as a crime writer, and my previous one as a probation officer. Let’s say my probation career was the chicken. I went into the job in my early twenties, burning with a […]
From Screenwriter to Novelist
I first wanted to become a novelist because I wanted to find out how it was done. I remember as a teenager being gobsmacked when I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last novel, Tender Is The Night, in an edition that explained how two different versions had been published, the second re-arranging the chronology of the […]
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