Meet Chris Nickson, author of over 30 books, including historical crime series featuring Simon Westow and Tom Harper, set in his hometown of Leeds over the last three centuries. We chat about the importance of factual accuracy in fiction, writing several series in unison, following in family footsteps, and penning 50,000 word celebrity books in a month!

Learn the reality of paying the bills with your writing, the passion a person can have for telling the story of a city, and how real fictional characters can be to an author.

Get to know Chris better with our New2theScene presenter, and hear how characters sit beside him as he writes, making sure their stories are told, as social history informs fictional novels in his blend of crime and mystery during the evolution of a city.

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