Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of writer's routine where this week we're chatting to Rebecca Thorne.

Rebecca's new book, The Griefhouse, is out right now, and it comes after a switch of genre and a switch of name too. We talk about

how her working day is tightly planned, also how a pseudonym changes her headspace and helps

her switch off. And you can hear why she's trying to write without thinking of any genre at all.

The beginning of my writing career, I was definitely writing what I thought the market wanted to read.

So I was trying really hard to be a psychological thriller writer.

Because I love reading those books and they're great to read.

So I really wanted to write one.

And I did. I wrote too. And I'm really proud of them. They're great, they're good books. But it wasn't where I was comfortable writing. And the other thing I realized is that the, that deadline, that idea of writing a book a year, that doesn't come from the writer. That comes from the marketing department. That comes from a sales team who want to have a new book for the writer every single year so that idea that every writer

should be able to sit down knock out a draft in six months and spend six months editing that doesn't

come from the writer so as soon as you kind of sit back and you appreciate that and I thought well I well, I don't want to, one, I don't want to kind of do this thing that I find really difficult to do and it's driving me mad. I can't, I just can't write that quickly. And I want to write why I want to write. So having that kind of stern word with myself and having friends also recognise that and support me that, just if I to just keep going, was kind of what I needed to get over that hump.

More with Rebecca Thorne in this week's Writers' Routine.

Yes, welcome along to the show.

My name is Dan Simpson and this is Writers' Routine,

where we take a look through an author's working day.

We see what they do, how they do it,

how they plan their life and day to give them the best chance of getting words down on the page.

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