{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/689b7bcb290bdec8f9696fb1/6abe206738e6d69a303340b2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Roz Watkins | How to Explode Your Life and Write a Better Book ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/689b7bcb290bdec8f9696fb1/1791036938303-067f405d-fec2-4763-84fc-daeacd727e3c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong><em>&quot;Black History Month is the perfect time to discover your next favourite Black author. Browse my picks on <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/celebrating-black-voices-nadine-matheson?&amp;new-list-page=true&amp;bkshp-astro=t\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bookshop.org - Celebrating Black Voices</a></em></strong></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>&quot;Everyone should be able to carry the weight of a grown man just in case they need to dispose of a body.&quot;</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Roz Watkins</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Crime author <a href=\"https://www.rozwatkins.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Roz Watkins</a> joins Nadine Matheson to trace her unlikely path from engineering student to patent attorney to acclaimed crime writer. From childhood stories dark enough to warrant a trigger warning, to the surreal experience of finding an agent at the York Festival of Writing, to blowing up her entire life in her forties. Roz shares the persistence, community, and dark humour behind her career. She also introduces her latest novel, <em><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14776/9780008372026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Wicked Girls</a></em><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14776/9780008372026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">,</a> a gothic psychological thriller set in a Cornish village where girls keep dying on their 17th birthdays.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About Roz Watkins</strong></p><p>Roz Watkins is a crime thriller author based in Cornwall. Before becoming a writer, she studied engineering and natural sciences at university, then trained as a patent attorney, a career she eventually left behind in her early forties to pursue creative writing. She is the author of the DI Meg Dalziel police procedural series (including her debut <em>The Red House</em>) and the standalone gothic psychological thriller <em>The Wicked Girls</em>. Roz is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and a former resident of Derby before relocating to Falmouth, Cornwall. Find her at <a href=\"https://www.rozwatkins.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rozwatkins.co.uk </a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14776/9780008372026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy &#39;The Wicked Girls&#39;</a></p><p><br></p><p>&quot;Black History Month is the perfect time to discover your next favourite Black author. Browse my picks on Bookshop.org. [link]&quot;</p>","author_name":"Nadine Matheson"}