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.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fbi3aA7gPl8
- 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.
Press Play now & be sure to check out Alex Connor's novels on Art In Fiction: https://www.artinfiction.com/novels?q=alex+connor
Alex Connor's website: https://www.alexandra-connor.co.uk/
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