Faber Writing Academy – The Crime Fiction Lab
The Crime Fiction Lab and our tutors’ crime writing processes. Want to know just how practical The Crime Fiction Lab is for real crime writers? We asked our tutors R.W.R. McDonald and Katherine Kovacic.
Conversations with Friends #11 RWR McDonald with Katherine Kovacic
@thefirsttimepod ⚡️NEW EP!⚡️This week in #conversationswithfriends @rwrmcdonald & @katherine.kovacic talk virtual book tours, editing, and the writing crime life. Kovacic’s latest #alexclayton art mystery is #theshiftinglandscape @echo_publishing (and was released on Day One of covid restrictions 😩) and the latest from @rwrmcdonald is #thenancys @allenandunwin, and we can look forward to a new #nancys in 2021 🍾👏🏼 Listen and find links at thefirsttimepodcast.com or wherever you get your ear content 🎧
This series is supported by a @cityofmelbourne COVID-19 Arts Grant.
Co-teaching new crime fiction course – The Crime Fiction Lab
This five-week course dives into the elements of Crime Fiction, discussing the sub-genres and rules, exploring the various types protagonists and the ways crime stories can be told. Each week class exercises will help develop these elements in your own writing, whether you have a work in progress, or the glimmer of a story idea. We will interrogate your suspects, examine your clues, attend your crime scenes and apprehend your criminal. With special guests Craig Sisterson, Sarah Bailey and Chris Hammer.
An Interveiw with R.W.R. McDonald by Samuel Elliott for Compulsive Reader
Author interview by Samuel Elliott: A short while ago I got to chat with Kiwi-born, Melbourne-based writer, R.W.R. McDonald, regarding his widely-acclaimed debut novel, ‘The Nancys’. With his lifelong love of Nancy Drew mysteries acting as somewhat of an impetus, McDonald has gone off to do his own inmitable thing with ‘The Nancys’, a tale revolving around a grisly murder mystery set in a [seemingly] quaint little New Zealand town and investigated by an unlikely and loveable trio, as led by precocious 11-year-old narrator, Tippy.
For those of you that hail from the Land of the Long White Cloud, or have relos there, as I most certainty do (in verdant Central Otago no less!), you’ll have a blast reading this. ‘Tis a right rarity to find any contemporary novel set within that part of the world and one that warmed the cockels of my heart region.
We discussed the setting and the decision to ficitionalise a real-life town, along with how the story, first sparked over a decade ago, was (instrumentally) developed at Faber Academy. We also delved into the curse of self-doubt inherent with the writing vocation and how one must overcome such debilitating notions in order to identify oneself as a writer (for those writerly pals out there, I know that that will resonate with you to no end). Get readin’ the interview (link in bio) and get your hot little hands on a copy of ‘The Nancys’ from @allenandunwin like, now. Thanks to @rwrmcdonald for chatting with me and for Compulsive Reader for publishing the interview!
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