The Novelry Blog
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Our guest tutor, Mark Billingham, is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. His series of novels featuring DI Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of the Year Award and his debut novel, Sleepyhead was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 books that had shaped the decade. His latest novel is Their Little Secret. A television series based on the Thorne novels starred David Morrissey as Tom Thorne and a series based on In The Dark and Time Of Death was broadcast on the BBC in 2017. Mark lives in London with his wife and two children. When he is not living out rock-star fantasies as a member of the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, he is hard at what he claims is 'laughably' called work; writing his next novel.
Enjoy his tip-offs, my dark-hearted writers.
TEN TIPS FOR WRITING CRIME FICTION
(SOME MORE SERIOUS THAN OTHERS.)
- READ! I know this sounds blindingly obvious, but I’m constantly amazed by the number of people I meet who tell me...
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