Hello, welcome along to writers' routine. This week we're chatting to Rebecca McCanna. Her new novel is

fictional true crime. It's called Don't Forget the Girl. We talk about how she managed to balance

the glamour of evil

with the true bleakulous of what serial killers are actually like.

Also, why she started out writing short stories

and what she's learned from the dream of finally being published.

The thing that's been really interesting about actually going through the publishing process

is sort of realizing

that all of those things you daydream about, they, like, weirdly, they don't compare to the actual

writing. Like, it is, the gift of writing is that magical meditative state. It is the act itself. And so I think my relationship with writing is that magical meditative state. It is the act itself. And so I think my relationship

with writing has changed a lot going through the publication process because now I can kind of

recognize I'm sitting down because it's the act itself that is the fulfilling thing, whereas I think

before I was more motivated by achievement.

There's all that on the way with Rebecca McCanna in a brand new writer's routine.

Yes, welcome along to the show. My name's Dan Simpson. This is where we take a look inside an

author's working day to try and get some tips

and tricks. So at whatever stage you are in the process of trying to get your book out there,

whether you've had that initial idea, if you've started working on it, maybe you've finished

it and you're looking for some help editing, some help getting out there with an agent with

the publisher, wherever you are at, hopefully there's something in here that can help you out.

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