{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5fc902f632ed315e8af1c44a/6247295d37b64300124658d3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Novelist Zoë Somerville on how to use the countryside to unsettle your readers","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/undefined/1607008424525-5f3cace00185df1e95154b818eb2c13b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Zoë Somerville's recent novel The Marsh House concerns a single mother's Christmas visit to the creepy Norfolk coast, and her reading a life of a previous resident of her dilapidated cottage while nature does its best to frighten her. Here she shares her Five Rules of Writing on how to create pure rural fear.</p><p><br></p><p>The Marsh House: <a href=\"https://headofzeus.com/books/9781838934675\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://headofzeus.com/books/9781838934675</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://zoesomerville.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://zoesomerville.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p>@zessomerville</p>","author_name":"Strong Words Magazine"}