Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of writers' routine where we're chatting to

Katie Marsh, who has swapped genre for her new novel, with very intriguing reasons why,

and we'll talk about that. The new book is called How Not to Murder Your Ex.

We discuss why her main focus for the workspace is making sure it's utterly distraction-free.

Also, why she holds herself back for two months before starting to write. And you can hear how her

writing process has changed, moving genre from romance to

crime. I think my approach was probably more technical than for romance. I think, you know,

if you take the premise of my first book, which was about a woman, he's about to leave her husband,

and then he has a stroke, and just as staying care for him.

And that's kind of a much more emotionally driven plot, whereas crime is obviously finding the clues, working out the inconsistencies, figuring out the motives.

There's a real energy to that.

I find really fun to work through.

And it gives me certainly an energy

and the kind of intellectual challenge as an author

that I really enjoy it.

It's not that they weren't there with romantic fiction.

It's just that I feel at the moment for me

this is the right fit.

There is more with Katie Marsh in this week's writer's routine. Yes, welcome along to the show. My name's Dan Simpson, and this is

writer's routine, where we take a look through an author's working day. We see how they get

stuff done. We unpack how they plan their space, their day,

everything else in their life to give them the best chance of getting words down onto the page.

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