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I love pace and tension in a story. Not just in my writing but in my reading too. The challenge for me in writing Siege was to try to keep the pace cracking along for close to 400 pages, when almost all the action was set in the confined space of a hotel, and where the inevitable stand-off between police and terrorists always acted as an anchor trying to slow things down. I countered this in...
http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=7956727 CHAPTER FOUR Lisa needed to think. She knew something bad had happened to Karl and wondered who might have something to do with it. She had to track him down. Drawing on her experience on secondment to LAPDs robbery and homicide unit she called the manufacturers of Karl’s Rolls Royce, knowing they would have a tracking device on...
Best selling crime writer Simon Kernick was the studio this morning writing a thriller based on TODAY in just over two hours...Here is how the story evolved throughout the morning... http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=7956727. CHAPTER ONE The moment Karl climbed into his car that Monday morning, he knew something wrong. It was a sixth sense he’d honed during his years in Special...
Best selling crime writer Simon Kernick was the studio writing a thriller based on Channel 9's TODAY program in just over two hours. In the ultimate race against time Simon wrote The Replacement using the TODAY team as the characters. Watch behind the scene footage to see how the drama unfolded... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tknwan2KjZ8]
