Join me as I chat with novelist Alex Connor, author of several art thrillers listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, including Rembrandt's Secret, The Caravaggio Conspiracy, and The Incubus Tapes.
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- Why Alexandra has chosen to center her novels, mostly art thrillers, around art.
- Seeing Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus in the National Gallery when she was six.
- What led Alexandra to "follow her bright light" and focus on her dual careers as a writer and a painter.
- How Alexandra decides which artists to base a novel aroundl she's written novels related to Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Klimt, Fuseli, Bosch, and many more.
- Story behind the story of Rembrandt's Secret and how Alexandra likes to go behind the scenes to find interesting and often little known stories connected with an artist.
- Inspiration for The Incubus Tapes.
- The story behind Fuseli's famous painting The Nightmare and how it forms the basis of the dual-time narrative in The Incubus Tapes.
- Pacing when writing a thriler.
- Reading from The Incubus Tapes.
- Some of the challenges related to writing an art-based thriller.
- Why a writer should keep writing and not let other people dampen their passion.
- What Alexandra is working on now.
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Alex Connor's website: https://www.alexandra-connor.co.uk/
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