The Writers’ Gym Podcast

Graham Bartlett, bestselling fiction and non-fiction author

Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by ex homicide detective, crime writing mentor and bestselling crime author GrahamBartlett.  

After thirty years of policing, whereby Graham Bartlett became Brighton and Hove police's chief superintendent, a senior homicide detective and a public order and firearms commander, he is now a best-selling crime fiction and non-fiction author, and police and crime advisor.

His debut non-fiction, Death Comes Knocking, written with Peter James, was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and Peter and Grahamfollowed this up with the critically acclaimed Babes in the Wood. Since then, Graham has had three solo crime novels published; Bad for Good (Sunday Times Top Ten Best Seller, Winner of Crime Fiction Lover Editors' Choice Award 2022 and Nominated for Specsavers Debut of the Year 2022), Force of Hate, and City on Fire.

As a police procedure and crime advisor, Graham works with over 200 authors and TV writers (including Peter James, William Shaw, Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Mark Billingham and the BBC), helping them inject authenticity into their work. He is a crime writing mentor with Jericho Writers, runs live and online crime writing courses is a regular speaker at crime writing festivals and appears in many true crime TV documentaries.

Learn more about Graham Bartlett here: https://policeadvisor.co.uk, https://linktr.ee/grahambartlett

Instagram: @gbpoliceadvisor

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Rachel shares her experience of rejection, and how to move through it by acknowledging this is the middle of a story, not the end, encouraging us to create the next chapter. 
 
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Victoria Dowd, bestselling crime writer and Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association

Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by prize and award-winning author, Victoria Dowd.  

Victoria is the award-winning author of the bestselling Smart Woman’s Mystery series and has been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. Her novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s Book of the Year. Her novel Murder Most Cold won the Grand Puzzly award. Victoria was awarded the Gothic Fiction prize for her short fiction and The Syke House International Film Silken Noose Award.

Victoria is the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and before becoming a writer was a criminal defence barrister for many years.

Her historical crime novel, Death in the Aviary, was released this year and is the first book in a new series. Her standalone novel, The New Rules of Murder, will be published by Sphere in April next year.

Learn more about Victoria Dowd here:
https://victoriadowd.com/

Instagram: @dowdvictoria

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What’s the most damaging advice you’ve ever received as a writer? Dr Rachel Knightley reflects on what the wrong and right ‘shoulds’ can do to our ability to make time for our writing and ourselves, and how to take control of our reactions to the messaging we receive. Rachel provides a creative confidence and writing ‘Think On The Page’ Writers’ Gym exercise to create the time and writing that works for you.

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Dr Rachel Knightley’s guest at the Writers’ Gym this episode is award-winning author Nathan Newman. 

Nathan is a novelist and filmmaker based in London. Their short stories have won awards, including the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction, and been published in literary journals and anthologies.

Their debut novel, How To Leave The House was released to critical acclaim, and was a New Yorker and New York Times best book of the year.

Learn more about Nathan here: https://www.nathannewmanrules.com/

Instagram: @nathanfnewman

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