Tim and Dave kick off season two with Charlie Gallagher, author of more than a dozen novels, including Her Last Breath and The Friend. Charlie is a UK-based author who recently made the jump from having a day job (as a police officer, no less) to writing full time.
We start the interview talking about what writing was like for Charlie when he was a cop versus now, and how he likes having deadlines as much as he liked the chaos and pressure of having to write whenever time afforded it.
We have a robust discussion of writing by the “seat of the pants” as opposed to doing lots of planning; we talk about literary agents, and there’s lots of mentions of running down the street naked. For the “speed round” of random questions at the end, we learn how Charlie feels about new movies released to both HBO and theaters, writing festivals, and doing the dishes.
This was a fun interview. It wasn’t without some technical glitches, so we had to edit out a chunk from the beginning — but a couple of things were just too good not to include, and we stuck these at the end, so keep listening all the way through!
