Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Paul French, author of 'Murders of Old China' - Writer of brand new Audible series talks finding clues in the past, writing for audio, and knowing how to research.
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Paul French, author of 'Murders of Old China' - Writer of brand new Audible series talks finding clues in the past, writing for audio, and knowing how to research.
Paul French has just released a 12 part audio series, 'Murders of Old China', through Audible. As the name suggests, it tells the stories of unsolved crimes from the early 20th century of China. We talk about how Paul discovered these crimes, and then set about researching them and possibly even solving them.
As this has been specifically made for Audible, we talk about whether that changed his writing style: is there something different about telling stories for ears rather than eyes? For Paul, the secret seems to be in research - he will spend hours trawling through newspapers and old stories looking for the little line that he needs, we talk about the joy that it gives him, and how he knows he's onto the right track.
He knows China well, living there for nearly 20 years as a journalist and book reviewer, and published 'Midnight in Peking' to huge success. It was a New York Times Bestseller, and was awarded a number of prestigious crime awards.
We also get a distinguished ritual from history with Mason Currey giving us an extract from his new book 'Daily Rituals: Women at Work'
patreon.com/writersroutine
@writerspod
writersroutine.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
View all episodes
By Dan Simpson
4.9
293293 ratings
Paul French has just released a 12 part audio series, 'Murders of Old China', through Audible. As the name suggests, it tells the stories of unsolved crimes from the early 20th century of China. We talk about how Paul discovered these crimes, and then set about researching them and possibly even solving them.
As this has been specifically made for Audible, we talk about whether that changed his writing style: is there something different about telling stories for ears rather than eyes? For Paul, the secret seems to be in research - he will spend hours trawling through newspapers and old stories looking for the little line that he needs, we talk about the joy that it gives him, and how he knows he's onto the right track.
He knows China well, living there for nearly 20 years as a journalist and book reviewer, and published 'Midnight in Peking' to huge success. It was a New York Times Bestseller, and was awarded a number of prestigious crime awards.
We also get a distinguished ritual from history with Mason Currey giving us an extract from his new book 'Daily Rituals: Women at Work'
patreon.com/writersroutine
@writerspod
writersroutine.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More shows like Writer's Routine
View all
The Penguin Podcast
145 Listeners
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
614 Listeners
Helping Writers Become Authors
961 Listeners
Otherppl with Brad Listi
502 Listeners
Bookclub
237 Listeners
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
444 Listeners
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
214 Listeners
Writing Excuses
1,291 Listeners
The Waterstones Podcast
36 Listeners
Fiction Writing Made Easy
1,427 Listeners
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
746 Listeners
Offline with Jon Favreau
2,206 Listeners
Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
356 Listeners
Writers on Writing
72 Listeners
No Write Way with V. E. Schwab
67 Listeners