How To Write Authentic Crime Fiction With Patrick O’Donnell From Cops and Writers
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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How can you write nuanced police characters in your crime novels? What are some under-used crimes that might make interesting plots? Patrick O'Donnell talks about Cops and Writers in the interview today. In the intro, thoughts on a digital sales webinar from Ingram Content; the Immersive Books & Media 2020 Research Report [Publishers Weekly]; how […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Joanna Penn, and this is episode number 536 of the podcast, and it is Sunday the 28th of February, 2021, as I record this. And spring is almost here. Yay. |
| 0:45.0 | In today's show, I'm talking to Patrick O'Donnell from Cops and Writers on how to write authentic crime fiction. |
| 0:52.2 | We talk about creating three-dimensional characters for the police |
| 0:55.7 | in your books and also about conflict, survivors' guilt, ideas for plots that are underused, |
| 1:01.7 | the double-edged sword of technology, as well as some of the aspects of the job that you might |
| 1:06.3 | write about and what TV and movies get wrong. So that is coming up in the interview segment. |
| 1:14.4 | In publishing news, well, I attended a great webinar with Ingram content this week, which |
| 1:19.9 | was aimed at publishers, basically, and it was all about optimizing for online sales. And I was |
| 1:25.7 | very interested in what they were going to talk about. |
| 1:28.2 | So it contains some statistics about online shopping. Over 80% of people in the US have bought |
| 1:34.1 | online in the last month up. I can't remember the number but it was like wow this is a big shift. |
| 1:40.5 | 95% of people research purposes or purchases online and 50% have used mobile devices to buy something. |
| 1:49.3 | In 2020, 30% of all retail was e-commerce and they noted that this is a dramatic shift in consumer behaviour |
| 1:57.6 | and has actually had the effect of shifting traffic away from Amazon. And this |
| 2:02.6 | was really interesting and I've noticed this with my own behaviour is that places, stores that I would |
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