Writing Podcast Episode 471: Crime thriller author Candice Fox on turning her novel ‘Crimson Lake’ into the TV series ‘Troppo’.

Crime thriller author Candice Fox on turning her novel Crimson Lake into the TV series Troppo. Also: getting into real estate copywriting and we have 3 copies of The Maid by Nita Prose to giveaway.

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Writer in residence: Candice Fox

Candice Fox is an award-winning crime and thriller writer. Her latest novel is The Chase, an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Nevada desert. She is the author of Hush Hush, her fourth book with iconic crime and thriller author James Patterson. Liar Liar, Fifty Fifty and her bestselling novel Never Never were also written with James Patterson. Described as “a brutal, action-packed and really hard-edged novel about a crime set in a FIFO mine in the outback,” Never Never hit number 1 in the New York Times bestseller list and around the world. 

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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre and our course Anatomy of a Crime: How to Write About Murder

Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).

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