Talking to Fleur McDonald, author or The Witness

Fleur McDonald is one of Australia's most prolific crime writers... and she's the first to admit she has absolutely no idea how she does it. In this conversation, Fleur returns to chat about The Witness, the third instalment in her Kalgoorlie series (after The Prospect and The Missing), a book that deliberately flips the script: you might figure out who did it halfway through, but the real tension is whether anyone gets out safely.Anj and Fleur dig into what it takes to keep a series fresh when you're staring down book 27, why Kalgoorlie became Fleur's answer to an Australian version of Midsomer, and how setting can be just as gripping a character as any detective. They also get refreshingly honest about the chaos behind the craft - the editing process that's become more intense than ever, writing and editing two books simultaneously, a pregnancy timeline blunder, and a new experiment where Fleur submits chapters one at a time to her publisher in a bid to tighten the creative chaos. Plus: why a typo in a published book might actually be something to celebrate.https://www.fleurmcdonald.com/https://www.instagram.com/fleurmcdonaldauthor/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.