From stage to page
Actor-turned-author Anna Downes tells us how she now uses drama techniques in her written storytelling.
Sisters In Crime
What lurks beneath perfection: Robyn Harding
UK best-selling author, Robyn Harding, discloses to Maggie Baron how a real-life experience inspired her latest novel, The Perfect Family.
Murder Monday: Sally Hepworth
“I always start out with a happy, uplifting premise, and before I know it, I’m Googling the best instruments with which to bludgeon someone to death.”
A mirror to the law: Fiona McIntosh
Fiona McIntosh holds a mirror to UK law and sentencing as she discusses her new novel, Mirror Man, with Maggie Baron.
Hitting the wall
Author Rebecca Freeborn shares her very intimate experience about the highs and lows of being a writer.
Murder Monday: Louise Candlish
Best-selling UK author, Louise Candlish, spoke from London about her brilliant career and the craft of writing to Karina Kilmore for September’s Murder Monday. Her latest book, The Heights, just out with Simon & Schuster, is a story of revenge, obsession, and vertigo.
Murder Monday: Meshel Laurie
Meshel Laurie is more often found interviewing people for radio, television, crime podcasts or entertaining them on stage. The roles are reversed for this episode of Murder Monday, where Sisters in Crime convenor Karina Kilmore asks Meshel the hard questions.
Cross-genre Writing: Catherine Jinks
“I can’t stand to see a good idea go to waste.” Catherine Jinks explains how she happily straddles multiple genres, including romance, horror, cute kids picture books, and thriller crime fiction.
Fatal female friendships: Author spotlight with Polly Phillips
Perth author, Polly Phillips, drew on her observations and portrayals of female friendships for her debut novel My Best Friend’s Murder (Simon & Schuster). Gaslighting in female friendship hasn’t been examined with the same nuance that romantic relationships have, she says.
TV drama Vs the novel: The pros and cons with Debra Oswald
Through most of my forty years as a writer, I’ve jumped between novels, plays and television scripts. Across all of those, the mission feels essentially the same – doing my best to conjure up intriguing characters and a story that will be gripping, moving, surprising but always plausible. If you peeked into my house when …