6:05 / Writers on Writing / Dawn Barclay and Bloody Murders

Travel and Death. We don’t normally put these two topics together unless we’re talking tragic accidents, but Dawn Barclay has found a way to create entertaining mysteries and relate true crime stories.

After talking about Tech and tools, the writing process and productivity, she shares with us the two publications she will have this winter. In January she’ll release her newest domestic thriller, Deadly When Disturbed. February sees the multi-volume nonfiction Vacations Can Be Murder: The True Crime Lovers’ Travel Guide to New England. She will return with more true crime in a Mid-Atlantic edition followed by the Southeast before she explores bloody murder in the Mid-West.

D.M. Barr is the pseudonym for Dawn M. Barclay, an award-winning author who writes psychological and romantic suspense under this pen name and non-fiction under her own. Her published novels include Expired Listings, Murder Worth the Weight, Saving Grace: A Psychological Thriller, The Queen of Second Chances, and Simple Tryst of Fate.

TIMINGS

• 00:40 Welcome / Introduction / Tech Tools
• 5:09 Finding True Crimes of the Past
• 7:53 Trying AI for Translations
• 10:50 Problems with Tech and AI
• 19:30 Tech used in Active Writing
• 23:54 Dawn’s Process
• 25:00 True Crime, RomComs, and Domestic Thrillers

Total Run Time = 31:10

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