JP Rieger, author of 'Clonk!' - How to make detective fiction funny, mixing creativity, and writing out of order

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, we're joined by JP Rieger, whose brand new novel, 'Clonk!' is out now.

Paul worked as an attorney, and now spends his time as an amateur musician, and writing novels. We talk about how his work as an attorney has affected how much he plans out novels, and why he's quite casual about where and when he writes.

'Clonk!' is about the Baltimore City Police Detective Kev Dixit, seeking the murder of a local artist, and the unique characters that he meets along the way. We run through how he managed to write a detective novel mixed in with his love of absurd, dark humour. Also you can hear why it started as a novel about a London cop, before he took it back to basics and decided to write what he knows.

Paul discusses why he doesn't write in order, why he's happy for anyone to read his books, and how to differentiate protagonists in a world of grisly coppers.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine where we take a look through an author's working day.
0:14.2	This week we're chatting to J.P. Riger wants an attorney. Now an author, we chat about his love of nonsense and absurdity. Also, how he's
0:24.1	worked that into a detective crime novel. And you can hear how, really, after coming to writing
0:31.2	novels quite late, he's simply happy if anyone gets to read his work.
0:35.6	I do the writing because I like it. And if anyone else
0:39.0	happens to like it, hooray, which really makes me happy. But I would still write even if it's
0:44.9	just my wife, you know, reading what I write. It's just, I really just enjoy writing. I had my most
0:52.9	recent novel that I finished after a cl Clunk. I'm trying to get,
0:57.4	that's being sent out to various publishers, niche publishers, to see if they have any interest.
1:02.0	And I've gotten a few rejects back. But I told one of my guys, I said, you know, I don't really,
1:08.9	for me, this is great because someone actually read it, you know, even if they didn't like it, you know, I don't really, for me, this is great because someone actually read it.
1:11.8	You know, even if they didn't like it, you know, it's cool that I wrote something and someone read it.
1:16.4	It's all on the way with J.P. Riga in a brand new writer's routine.
1:26.2	Yes, welcome along to the show then. My name's Dan Simpson and this is writer's routine. Thank you
1:31.9	for finding, for following, for listening, for sharing, for being there. We take a look through
1:36.4	an author's working day to see how they get stuff done, how they take an idea from their head,
1:41.1	how they plan their day and their space around that to give them
1:44.6	the best chance of getting it down on the page. And for this week and the next couple of weeks,
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1:55.0	It plots. It helps you plan your books the way that you think. And it will help you outline faster,
2:00.7	organize smarter, and simply to
2:03.1	just turbocharge your productivity to give you the best chance of getting it down. It's the point of
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