Hello, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of writers' routine this week, chatting to Claire Allen, an Northern Irish writer. She's published 16 books so far, more or less, across loads of different genres. She's been a USA Today bestseller, and her new book is Ask No Questions.

We talk about flitting between genres, how she changes her method and the style of writing dependent.

Also, about the routine of a year, and how she gets many books done in that time if necessary.

And you can hear how worried she gets or doesn't get sitting and waiting for the next big

thing to come.

The idea will come when it comes.

I always get this real panic when I submit a book going, right, I need another idea,

I need another idea.

I'm not one of these authors that has a million ideas floating around in my head all the time. Some people say that, oh, I've just too many ideas. And I'm like, well, I've just too few. So I have to wait. Sometimes it'll come to me within a week or two of submitting. And sometimes, I think it's like two months one time and I was like going

mad nearly trying to force it. There is more on the way with Claire Allen in this week's

writer's routine. Yes, it's writers routine where we take a look inside the working day of some of the most successful and prolific authors around.

My name's Dan Simpson.

Thank you for coming back.

Thank you for streaming and finding and following us.

I will get you that second episode a week, by the way.

I know we did it kind of through summer.

Then I took a little break and they've not popped up just yet, but they are coming in a week or so. We'll have a

bonus by a random routine for you at the start of every week. Just a little boost to give you

some inspiration. So make sure you follow us wherever you get your podcasts from. This week, we've got a very prolific author, published almost 20 books. Claire Allen started as a journalist. She's written women's fiction under the name Freya Kennedy as well. And she's got a brand new psych thriller out. It's called Ask No Questions, all about Kelly Doherty, who goes missing on Halloween night and is found dead.

And then 25 years later, her friend, Ingrid Devlin, wants to know the truth.

Now, we talk about planning the year and switching between genres, what she thinks about the beats and the plot points of Syke Thriller 2.

And we start as we always do with what she

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