An Afternoon with Lee Child! By Will Ryan 

Just bought my tickets to the Lee Child event at this years Mountains to Sea dlr Book festival!(About ten seconds after I received the marketing email!). I'm a huge Lee Child fan and it was picking up a copy of Echo Burning that brought me back to reading fiction after years away reading nothing but books on Quantum physics!

Lee Child Author of the Jack Reacher Series

Back when I was writing The Harder They Fall I listened to a lot of his interviews and in a sense it was his assertion that a book has to grow organically from its writer that allowed me to take my book in the directions it needed to go. There were times when I knew I wasn't following the "rules" of writing thrillers but to stick to what other people said was right would have damaged what I saw as the necessary arc for the story and the characters.

Really looking forward to the opportunity to hear him speak in person and maybe get a chance for a quick chat!

The rest of the festival programme is available here and includes lots of writing workshops for all genres. For those of you also into crime/thriller writing the workshops with Jane Casey are definitely worth a look.

The above post is by Will Ryan and was posted on his blog: http://willryanthrillers.blogspot.ie/ . Thanks Will for allowing us to repost.