Alice Feeney
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Alice Feeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the solution was really actually very simple. I just needed to delete 80,000 words. Wow.
Yeah, I mean, my books tend to be about 85, so I had 5,000 left, so that felt quite positive.
At least something, just the starting point was there. And I wrote the book again, same book, same story, same characters. This time it worked, and that was Daisy Darker. So all of the books have behaved differently, but sometimes... You do, I think, as an author, get a little bit obsessed with the story, the characters. I mean, I hear them in my head.
They're talking to me now without wishing to sound too crazy. Do you remember them?
They feel like family because... In some ways, I spend more time with the characters than I do with anyone real in my life. Sure. They're there all the time. They wake me up at 3 a.m.
Thank you.
a magic eight ball because that was in the book too I feel like I must add you know if there's something I want as a present I need to put it in the next book so that the lovely team will get it for you will make up something for a press kit and send me one yes that's so funny so for when you're describing the first book that you wrote did you ever come back to it and publish it the first book that you wrote did it ever get published or would you ever go back to it to try to publish no it's terrible is it I mean thank goodness it didn't get published um
Now, I told you I've only listened to one podcast. That was the one that is the one.
The butt eye. I mean, I had to pause it and think, did I misunderstand?
I mean, I just thought that was the best writer story I've ever heard ever. I loved that. I love that. You know, all respect to her. That's fantastic. I didn't have a butt eye in my first book. I sort of wish I did because it's a brilliant story, isn't it? It's good. Yes. No, it was a bit too happy, if I'm honest. I think I prefer writing and reading and watching quite dark and twisty stories.
I think I was scared of doing that. And I think I was scared that perhaps I wasn't clever enough to do that. In what way? Well, I think when you're growing up, for me, I imagined authors as these supreme magical beings.
You know, there are these magicians of words. And so although it was something I would have loved to have become... I couldn't imagine how someone like me could be. And even, you know, people would say, even when I wanted to work for the BBC, people would say, you'll never work at the BBC. How would someone like you work at the BBC? So it was...
There were these dreams of mine that seemed so difficult to achieve, and yet, I don't know, I think there's something about me. When someone tells me I can't do something, it makes me really, really want to do it even more. And I felt like that about journalism, and I felt like that about becoming an author, but I was just always scared that I wasn't good enough.
And even just now, you know, very recently I submitted book eight. You would think that I might have more confidence now, but I don't. When I send that novel in for the first time, it's pure terror that I experience, that I'm scared that it isn't good enough or that I might let people down. Because let's face it, there are lots of brilliant books in the world.
I don't want to inflict a bad one on anybody's
Yeah, it is incredible. It blows my mind to know that there are so many people around the world reading books that I've written in my shed.
I guess I spend so much time on my own that I don't always understand what is going on in the outside world to do with the books. I really do only come out for two or three weeks to do tour once a year and then I go back to the shed again. I'm a bit of a hermit. I suppose I am a bit like Grady Green in that way too. Yeah.
But it's always a surprise, you know, when we go to events and there are so many people. I remember we went to an event in St. Louis a couple of years ago and we arrived and my lovely publicist, Claire, who is here today, said to the lady when we arrived, is anyone here yet? And she said, yes, don't worry, we've already got 20 people. And I thought, oh, thank goodness.
You know, everyone, as authors, you're always scared of turning up to an event and either nobody's there or one man and his dog are there or... or someone turns up and it turns out really they wanted to meet Ruth Ware and they thought I was her and they're disappointed. That does not happen. It's never happened yet, but it might. You never know, do you? Did she comment on the book?
No, I don't think she did, but we got lots of other lovely comments. But this event where they said there's 20 people, I was so relieved. And it turned out I hadn't heard her. She said there's already 220 people. And so when we walked in, I was so confused. I thought maybe they turned up for another author and that they'd be disappointed it was me.
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