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#59 – Rebecca Tope – Write Through The Roof

#59 – Rebecca Tope – Write Through The Roof

Update: 2019-04-06

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Episode #59 – Interview with cosy-mystery writer Rebecca Tope.

‘I didn’t get published until I was 50.’

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Written 35+ murder mystery novels as a <g class="gr_ gr_21 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace" id="21" data-gr-id="21"><g class="gr_ gr_21 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace" id="21" data-gr-id="21">pantser</g></g>
Coffee or gin
Themes of natural burials & anti-technology.
British <g class="gr_ gr_24 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="24" data-gr-id="24"><g class="gr_ gr_24 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="24" data-gr-id="24">cosy</g></g> mysteries featuring a village pub.
Mobile phones affecting crime stories & the inclusion of drones
Practice – millions & millions of words
Writing groups didn’t help
Mentoring others helps own writing – seeing the good & bad in aspiring writers
Brutal feedback
Long apprenticeships & writing competitions
Biography of Sabine Baring-Gould – writer of ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’
Research – a lot of research done for the biography & historical fiction but little research for murder mysteries
Celia Fremlin (domestic suspense), Agatha Christie, Lee Child, Kate Atkinson, William de Morgan
Settings – real & fictitious
The Grasmere Grudge, Secrets in the Cotswolds, the Patterdale Plot
One draft

‘Readers don’t mind if they think their house is the scene of a murder.”

‘I only really do one draft.’

Links

www.rebeccatope.com

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