Howdunit. Группа авторов

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СКАЧАТЬ and Satire

      In Short

       Roy Vickers Let’s Pretend

       H. R. F Keating Switch-overs in Short Stories

      Fiction and Fact

       Peter Lovesey Fictionalizing Characters and Crimes from Real Life

       Anthony Berkeley Trial and Error

      Partners in Crime

       Dorothy L. Sayers Collaborative Writing

      Adapting

       Alison Joseph Writing for Radio

       Simon Brett Adaptability

      Challenges

       Martyn Waites Impostor Syndrome

       Suzette A. Hill Writing: a Painful Pleasure

       David Stuart Davies Writer’s Block

       Stella Duffy Improvising

      Ending

       Laura Wilson The End of the Beginning

       Joanna Hines In My End

      Publishing

       David Roberts The Changing Face of Publishing

       Antonia Hodgson What Editors Want

       Russell James Traditional versus Self-Publishing

       Jill Paton Walsh One Thing Leads to Another

      Writing Lives

       Reginald Hill The Writing Process

       Paula Gosling Keeping Track

       Jonathan Gash Reading for Pleasure

       Janet Neel Don’t Give Up the Day Job

       Bertie Denham Writing to Relax

       Elly Griffiths Social Media and the Death of Nancy

       John Le Carré The Joy of Writing

       Len Deighton Different Books; Different Problems; Different Solutions

       The Contributors: Biographical Notes

       The Detection Club: Presidents

       The Detection Club: Members

       Index of Authors

       Subject Index

       Copyright and Acknowledgements

       Keep Reading …

       About the Publisher

       Premise

       Introduction

      In Howdunit, no fewer than ninety leading crime novelists offer personal perspectives on their approach to their craft – and on the writing life. There are countless valuable insights for would-be writers, but our overriding aim is to entertain and inform anyone who enjoys crime fiction. And perhaps even some people who don’t regard themselves as crime fans – at least not yet – but who are fascinated by the way authors work.

      Each contributor is a past or present member of the Detection Club, the world’s oldest social network of crime writers. Publication of Howdunit coincides with the Club’s ninetieth birthday, so there is one essay for each year of the Club’s life to date. Over the past nine decades, many of Britain’s preeminent authors in the genre have belonged to the Club. Their work includes spy, thriller, and adventure fiction, as well as traditional detective stories and novels of psychological suspense. It is high time that their collective wisdom appeared in a single volume. The emphasis is on present-day writing and writers, but our predecessors’ thoughts remain of interest. This is partly because they illustrate how much the writing life and literary fashions have changed, and partly because they show that quite a few challenges remain the same. Detection Club members take their work seriously – but we also take joy from it. That sense of pleasure ripples through the contributions, from Lindsey Davis’s thoughts on literary style to Simon Brett’s rueful reflections about the prospect of having one’s masterpiece adapted by other hands.

      A century ago, the Club’s first President, G. K. Chesterton, wrote with pungent wit, ‘It is a well-known fact that people who have never succeeded in anything end by writing books about how to succeed; and I do not see why this principle should not be applied to success in the writing of detective stories as well as in lower and less glorious walks of life.’ But I like to think that Chesterton would have approved of this book, and would be delighted to see his own opinions appear alongside those of his contemporaries and successors.

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