Criminally Inspired

<p>"I read an article… about two Mills & Boon authors. One was living in tax exile in the Isle of Man and the other had just bought a million dollar house in the Bahamas, and I thought, I’d really like to have some of...

<p>“That’s the tricky thing about inspiration; you never know when it’s going to pitch up." Jamie Sinclair talks about the difficulty in knowing when a Eureka moment might hit, drinking with Jarvis Cocker, and selling...

<p>“Readers don’t care. If you think about the books you’re reading at the moment, you probably don’t know who the publisher is.” Elizabeth Ducie puts forward the case for people to seek out self-publishing, finding...

<p>"It's like walking in snow, that I'm brushing the snow behind me to hide my footsteps and you never know how on Earth I got there and I can't remember because everything is white and looks the same." Paul Gitsham...

<p>"I felt as a journalist, I couldn't just make this stuff up." Roger Corke joins Ben Bruce to talk about why research matters in fiction, his career in journalism and the joys of bee keeping. </p>

<p>"Spending time with your work and giving it to other people that you trust is invaluable." Luke Deckard talks the importance of finding inspiration from your peers, his route to publication through his masters and a...

<p>"Get him to read anything and everything. It doesn't matter if it's the Beano or the back of a sugar packet." Jonathan Whitelaw recalls the advice of his teacher to his parents, and talks about the need to always...

<p>"Get him to read anything and everything. It doesn't matter if it's the Beano or the back of a sugar packet." Jonathan Whitelaw recalls the advice of his teacher to his parents, and talks about the need to always...

<p>“The thing that’s been an influence on me all my life is that I am an only child. We’d adopted my sister for six months and then one day I was told she was going back, and I could not understand…” Bryan Mason talks...

<p>“I think the first question was why on earth was this blokes head in a cardboard box?” Brian Price talks about turning a competition entry into a fully fledged book, how a love of science took him to working with...

<p>“I wrote all the fun bits – the torture – first.” Donna Morfett joins Ben Bruce to talk about her new novel, blogging, and finding inspiration in the writing community. </p>

<p>“If you read something you really identify with, that’s a big clue of the mystery of what you want to write.” Guy Gardner and Ben Bruce talk about writing music, working on oil rigs, and being brave enough to delete...

<p>“Off and on I researched for 20 years before I started writing the Cesare Aldo novels.” D.V. Bishop talks to Ben Bruce about writing historical fiction, creating enemies for the Daleks and his characters unexpectedly...

<p>“To me it was just my old primary school, but apparently… it’s known as one of the most haunted buildings in Northern Ireland. James Murphy talks to Ben Bruce about the inspiration behind his books, serving his...

<p>“You can read my books, then you can go for a walk where it happens.” Ken Ward chats to Ben Bruce about setting his work in Norfolk and drawing inspiration from what’s around him, as well as writing classes, and how...