Sarah Moorhead, author of 'The Treatment' - Speculative fiction writer discusses keeping busy, thinking of genre, and the classic What If?
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Sarah Moorhead is busy. She's a doer who wants to achieve. She's been a teacher, a Chaplain, started youth-groups, has a black-belt in kickboxing, and writes novels. She published 'Witness X' in 2020, and is back with 'The Treatment'.
The novel is all about the future of law enforcement. It looks at how ground-breaking technology could alter what we think of criminals... only psychiatrist Grace Gunnarsson discovers it could let people get away with murder.
We chat through the 'what if?' that started the whole plot off, also why her creativity with books extends to more than just writing them, and why she likes to keep busy. You can hear extensively about her writing desk, why she keeps advice from other authors in her mind, and how much she thought about genre.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome along to writers' routine. This week we're chatting to Sarah Moorhead. Her new novel is |
| 0:14.8 | speculative fiction. It's called The Treatment. It's all about the future of law enforcement with |
| 0:19.6 | groundbreaking technology and the |
| 0:23.1 | damage that it could create. We discuss advice that she's had from other authors and, well, |
| 0:29.3 | some of the most famous songwriters in the world too. Also, why she likes to keep busy and always |
| 0:34.0 | wants to achieve and how the novel started with the classic What If? |
| 0:39.5 | What about if it is just the way your brain works and that might be something that we could |
| 0:45.0 | cure? So it's the idea of are people mad, bad or sad, you know, criminals, are they mad, bad or sad? |
| 0:50.8 | And in some cases, maybe it's just a thing in their brain and maybe there might come |
| 0:55.9 | a point in the future where we see psychopaths as somebody with, you know, for instance, if |
| 1:02.8 | you have a broken leg, you go to the doctor and you'll get it, you know, get operated on, |
| 1:06.7 | you'll have a cast and it's fixed. What if psychopaths were just like that, something that we could |
| 1:10.8 | actually fix in society. |
| 1:12.4 | And that's really where the treatment came from. |
| 1:14.0 | There is more from Sarah Moorhead this week in Writers' Routine. |
| 1:24.7 | Yes, welcome along to Writers' Routine, where we talk through an author's working day. |
| 1:28.9 | We see how they get stuff done, how they plan their life and their space and everything else around them wanting to get words down on the page. |
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