Luca Veste, author of 'You Never Said Goodbye' - The pressure of full-time writing, sitting on an idea, and a year in the life of a writer
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Luca Veste is fully immersed in the fantastic writing community. He's blogged, he podcasts with 'Two Crime Writers and a Microphone', plays in the 'Fun Lovin' Crime Writers', co-founded the 'Locked In Festival' and has published many books. He's most known for the 'Murphy and Rossi' novels, and for writing across many genres.
His new one, 'You Never Said Goodbye', is about Sam Cooper who lost his Mum early in life, and then years later learns a secret from his Dad that changes everything. We talk about how it came from an idea Luca has sat on for a little while, also how he works with an editor, and what a year looks like in the life of a full-time author.
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| 0:00.0 | Ahoi, hello, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week, |
| 0:13.1 | chatting to an author that's dived into a lot of different genres. Luca Vesti, he writes |
| 0:19.0 | crime, thriller, horror, and his new book is called You Never |
| 0:22.3 | Said Goodbye. We talk about what happens in the year of a writer, also how becoming a confident |
| 0:28.5 | author has changed what he's willing to work on, and what he thinks about whenever he feels |
| 0:34.7 | the pressure of storytelling. I have the best job in the world. |
| 0:38.0 | I get to sit there and make things up for a living. |
| 0:40.5 | That's a gift that someone has given to me to be able to do with my life. |
| 0:48.9 | So in those early days where you're discovering new characters and new settings and, you know, you have the endless possibility of going anywhere with the book. That's the best time. There's all that and loads more. So much more on the way with Luca Vesti in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:16.8 | Yes. |
| 1:18.3 | Hello, welcome along. |
| 1:19.5 | This is writer's routine. |
| 1:23.8 | The show, it's dead simple, where we take a look inside the working day of an author. |
| 1:25.6 | Really is that easy. |
| 1:29.2 | We look at how they get ideas, how they sit down, where they sit down, when they sit down, why they sit down to get that idea out and hopefully to publish it. |
| 1:36.3 | My name's Dan Simpson. Thank you for being there. This week we're chatting to Luca Vesti. |
| 1:41.0 | He's known for the Murphy and Rossi books, but has written many other thriller and crime |
| 1:45.9 | and horror novels, and he really is immersed in the writing world. Even if you've never read |
| 1:51.9 | any of Luca's work, you might know him from blogging online or hosting the two crime |
| 1:58.1 | writers and a microphone podcast or co-founding the locked-in festival. |
| 2:02.4 | He also plays in the fun-loving crime writers. He is the third member of the band to be on the show, |
| 2:08.9 | along with Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. Also, you've got Chris Brookmire in there, |
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