** This workshop has been cancelled – sorry **

If you’ve always wanted to write crime, this workshop will help you. In an interactive session, we’ll explore different interpretations of this broad genre and discuss motives, means and opportunity. Starting with a blank page, you’ll leave with a plot outline ready to be written.

Alex Clare has published two crime novels featuring DI Robyn Bailley, He’s Gone and She’s Fallen. The third book in the series, He’s Back, will be published on 23 June.

Venue: High House Production Park, Vellacott Close, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, RM19 1RJ

Date and time: Saturday 11th June, 3.30pm

Tickets: £20 / £15 concessions (Students, Under 27s and Jobseekers)

Box Office: Book online or via Mercury Theatre 01206 573948 (10am – 8pm Tuesday to Saturday)

About the Author

After nearly twenty years of being a committed corporate person, Alex Clare was made redundant. She had always enjoyed writing, studying fiction part-time through the Open University and managing to complete a novel in her commuting time, though no one had ever read it. Now, with lots more time on her hands, there was the opportunity to take writing more seriously. She began to enter competitions and joined a writing group, which encouraged her to try out new genres and styles. After a period focusing on short stories, she wanted to try another novel. Inspiration came from watching Parliament debate the Equal Marriage Act in 2013. Astounded by the intensity of feeling generated, she created a fictional world to explore diversity and belief.

When she’s not writing, she’s reading and is a sucker for a Golden Age crime novel.

You can find Alex on Twitter @AlexandraClare

Website: alexclareauthor.wordpress.com