Mastering the Art of Storytelling with Will Dean

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The October Book of the Month is THE CHAMBER, written by Will Dean. Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters. Then one of them is found dead in his bunk. Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom. After studying law at the London School of Economics and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a wooden house in a vast forest, and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. His debut novel, DARK PINES, was selected for Zoe Ball’s book club on ITV, shortlisted for the National Book Award (UK), The Guardian’s Not the Booker prize, and was named a Telegraph book of the year. He is also the author of THE LAST ONE, FIRST BORN, THE LAST THING TO BURN, which was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and THE CHAMBER. To learn more about Will, follow him on Instagram and X @willrdean, and on Facebook and YouTube @willdeanauthor. SPONSORS TARGETED: BEIRUT – The first in Jack’s new non-fiction series https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/targeted-beirut/ Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web at SIG: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the legendary SIG SAUER P226. Learn more here - https://jackcarr.co/SIG40thP226 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:17.0	Imagine you on a ship a diving vessel in the middle of the North Sea and you go down below deck and there is a gleaming stainless steel chamber and the hatch is open and you slither through and the hatch gets locked behind you and inside there are five other professional divers. And that's all before A, you get wet and you start work on the oil pipelines and beed before the first murder.
0:24.6	The chamber came around because I'm fascinated by secret worlds.
0:28.9	Where did you get that first idea that was like, oh, I'm going to write what
0:33.0	that takes place in a bottle episode.
0:35.0	I kind of knew I wanted to tell a story. Yeah. Man, dude, thank you so much for doing this. So we got to link up, was that April for the
1:08.4	Simon and Schuster or was it May trying to... It was, it was April, it was April, yeah it was a pool yeah it was quite that was quite a week that was wild that was really cool to be invited to go back there
1:19.2	a hundredth anniversary Simon and Schuster and what a fun couple days.
1:24.0	It was amazing.
1:25.0	It was an honor to be there and it was amazing to see all those literary people, serious
1:29.7	book people and then in the corner there was me and you having a chat about forests and
1:33.9	stuff. There's and watches yeah I want to get to that I want to get to that by the way
1:37.8	vintage watches we found out we had a lot in common it was awesome to to up and I forget that first night did you go to the first night as well in the theater?
1:48.2	I did not I missed you I flew in that night. Okay he came in that night. I couldn't make it but I saw I've seen you all your speech
1:55.1	online it looked amazing very cool. Well thank you I'm not that's not my thing you
2:01.3	I'm not comfortable talking in front of people like that.
2:03.7	I really don't like that at all.
2:05.4	I love talking about just books, like when you can engage with an audience and ask, you know,
2:09.8	anybody have any questions, then you could answer that person's question because then you know at least someone is interested in what you have to say.
2:15.4	But that one, you're just up there and there's lights in your face.
2:17.4	You can't really see anybody.
2:18.6	You know, it's a huge auditorium.
2:20.6	But also I went after Frederick Bachman from from Sweden.
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