Lucinda Berry, author of 'This is a Safe Space' - USA Today bestseller discusses finding new audiences online, working on audio thrillers, and dealing with the tough days
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Lucinda Berry is a USA Today bestselling author, who has published 9 incredibly successful novels, which have been optioned for films, and translated into several languages. She worked as a psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma - much of that has inspired her thrillers.
Readers are huge fans of 'The Perfect Child', also the heart-pounding 'The Best of Friends', and the unsettling truths in 'The Secrets of Us'. Her new release is an audio thriller. 'This is a Safe Space', tells the story of the therapist Jenna who, after discovering a strange text exchange on her husband's phone, comes to wonder if he might be connected to one of her clients... who has disappeared.
We discuss the gestation of an audio-only idea, how the approach was different, and whether it changed the planning, plotting and style. You can hear how she deals with the trickier writing days, also her tight working schedule, the hefty word counts, and how she handled the switch to full time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine. This week, we're chatting to Lucinda Berry, USA Today, bestselling author, who is back with a new audio thriller. This is a safe space. |
| 0:22.7 | You can hear all about the moment she really decided to properly give writing a go. Also, |
| 0:27.9 | what she does when the work is a bit tricky. There are times that I'm going to slug through |
| 0:35.0 | the 3,000 words, right? Like, I, I hate writing, like, |
| 0:42.6 | action scenes, right? And so the days when I know I'm, like, going to have to do a lot of, |
| 0:49.1 | like, action scenes writing, it's like, uh, you know, you've got to do it. So you, you know, you make yourself |
| 0:56.8 | do it, you know. So I think that that's the biggest piece is like knowing that there's days |
| 1:02.8 | where it's not all roses and butterflies while you're writing. Sometimes, uh, sometimes you have to |
| 1:10.0 | write stuff that's hard and you struggle |
| 1:12.4 | with it and it doesn't come easy. And how she deals with the all-encompassing nature of being an |
| 1:18.3 | author in 2025, because there's a lot to do. We don't live in a world anymore. We're like, |
| 1:24.2 | you can just write a book and give it to your agent who gives it to your publisher |
| 1:30.5 | and then the book launches. |
| 1:32.8 | You know, there's so many other pieces that are a part of it now, right, that do take |
| 1:38.3 | up a lot of your time, right? |
| 1:40.3 | And so I think one of the things that's been fascinating to me is like just the different |
| 1:46.0 | audiences that exist in those different social media spaces and places, right? So it's like |
| 1:51.2 | each platform is different, right? And so kind of deciding, you know, where are you going to spend |
| 1:57.3 | your time? How much time are you going to spend there? You know, what are you going to do when you're there? Like all of those things. |
| 2:03.2 | It's all on the way with Lucinda Berry in a brand new episode of Writers Routy. |
| 2:13.7 | Yes, welcome along to the show. It's Writers R routine where we take a look inside an author's working day. |
| 2:20.2 | My name's Dan Simpson. Thank you very much for being there, for coming along, for seeing how other authors do the thing that we love to at least attempt to get done. |
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