He is a freelance editor for The Literary Consultancy and teaches their self-editing online courses. This is a really good tale that brings out the toughest jobs in the police service and makes the people real.

ly/3ZvpdFq Two interviews are available this week, from Curtis Brown Creative and The Bearded Bookseller. Jon studied for an MA in Dramaturgy and Script Development at University of Exeter and is an alumni of Curtis Brown Creative. A keen runner, climber and mountain biker, he spent much of his twenties touring the world as a ‘professional’ (his words) climber and has now settled down, with the dream of one day not being the slowest runner in the company.NINE TO FIVE is a new short produced by collaborators from BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew 2020/21 with added material improvised by the cast.

Agent Clarice Starling (from Silence of the Lambsby Thomas Harris) remains the gold standard for me.I was excited by the potential of this murkier world of policing that puts the Thames at the heart of the action. A briefcase is discovered in the same stretch of water, and suddenly the higher-ups at CID, including Naomi's rival, Detective Chief Inspector Shannon Baines, start showing an interest. If you’d like to know more, I took part in Diary of a Debut Novelist, run by the brilliant Emma Christie.

That mix of science fiction and science fact and fast-paced action just ticked the boxes for me at that time in my life. David Cade is a hardened frogman but his personal involvement in the case lead him to work with Naomi.It was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, and reached the top 26% for BBC Drama Room submissions, which saw nearly 4,718 applications. I try to remember what is in my control, and ultimately, the only thing I have true sway over is the quality of the written word. It struck me that divers are neglected characters in crime fiction, yet they have one of the diciest jobs in the Met.