crime writing Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/crime-writing/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:33:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How TV and Film Influence My Writing https://booksbywomen.org/tv-and-film-influence-my-writing-by-helen-s-field/ https://booksbywomen.org/tv-and-film-influence-my-writing-by-helen-s-field/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:31:00 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17850 ‘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 […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/tv-and-film-influence-my-writing-by-helen-s-field/feed/ 1 17850 Crime Fiction: Why I Love The Golden Age https://booksbywomen.org/crime-fiction-why-i-love-the-golden-age-by-michelle-birkby/ https://booksbywomen.org/crime-fiction-why-i-love-the-golden-age-by-michelle-birkby/#respond Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:12:15 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17383 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. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/crime-fiction-why-i-love-the-golden-age-by-michelle-birkby/feed/ 0 17383 How My Probation Career Influenced My Writing https://booksbywomen.org/how-her-probation-career-influenced-her-writing/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-her-probation-career-influenced-her-writing/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:13:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16253 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 […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-her-probation-career-influenced-her-writing/feed/ 1 16253 From Screenwriter to Novelist https://booksbywomen.org/from-screenwriter-to-novelist-by-isabelle-grey/ https://booksbywomen.org/from-screenwriter-to-novelist-by-isabelle-grey/#respond Sat, 09 Apr 2016 06:00:59 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15454 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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