Episode #59 – Interview with cosy-mystery writer Rebecca Tope.
‘I didn’t get published until I was 50.’
- Written 35+ murder mystery novels as a
pantser - Coffee or gin
- Themes of natural burials & anti-technology.
- British
cosy - 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.’
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