Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'authorship'
Tartan Noir
Prolific bestselling author Val McDermid comes from Fife in the coal-mining region of eastern Scotland. On her website she explains “I had always wanted to write, ever since I realised that real people actually produced all those books in the library.” After a career in journalism she began her first crime novel in 1984. She recalls that reading a Sara Paretsky mystery a "defining moment" because it was "a mystery with an urban setting that dealt with contemporary women's lives, that didn't shy away from engaging with the politics of the society it reflected, and that was fun."Words which I command are immortal
Yesterday’s authors@theLibrary speaker was local journalist and mystery writer Jessica Speart. Her career path is an interesting one. She started out as a soap opera actress and when her character was killed off she turned to investigative journalism after a consciousness raising visit to Africa and then later to began writing mystery novels, in which she continues to champion the cause of environmental and wildlife exploitation through her character, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Agent Rachel Porter.
If you are thinking about starting to write mysteries or have some old manuscripts that you have been meaning to dust off and get back to, check out Don’t Murder Your Mystery by Chris Roerden, the 2007 Agatha winner for best nonfiction book. It promises “24 fiction writing techniques to save your manuscript from turning up D.O.A.”
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