'Time To Burn' by Ellery Lloyd
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The Radio 2 Book Club with Sarah Cox.
Well, hello there. It's me. We are back with another Radio 2 Book Club pod. If you missed our special extended episode with international bestselling author Lisa Jewell, recorded live in Sheffield, you can catch up now on BBC Sounds. And if you'd like to be one of our listener reviewers, then why not get in touch with your top five reads of the year? And we may well be inviting you on the pod as a guest in the months to come. I know. Exciting, eh? As ever, the email is radio2... That's the number two... Radio 2 Book Club at bbc.co.uk. And if it's about books, you know, we want to hear about it. Let us know what you're reading, what you're looking forward to reading. Anything, really. Your reading style.
The poof you like to sit on whilst you read. Anything. We love it all. Right. Time now to tell you about our latest Radio 2 Book Club choice. It's called Time to Burn and it's a rollicking good thriller about time travel gone wrong. It's written by Ellery Lloyd, which is the pseudonym for two writers, Colette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. I'm very excited to say they both join me now in the studio. Welcome to the Radio 2 Book Club. Hi. Hello. Now, this blew my mind. Apparently, though, it's not common in writing for people to join forces and write under a pseudonym, but it is done, isn't it? Let's talk about how this works. When did you decide to write together and how exactly do you manage to do it without throttling each other?
i mean that is always the question people say how do we stay married and write books and actually it's it's quite fun to be able to write together and it's two brains instead of one working on a plot we write crime and thriller so being able to work through those naughty plot points together is is actually quite useful we never write in the same room that would definitely lead to divorce i'm
quite a loud typist and that would get on your nerves.
And you like to laugh at your own jokes when you're writing them. They're very good jokes. But we always have a chapter plan. So it's very kind of prescriptive. It's very detailed. And so before we start writing, we have that set out.
So we know where we're going. And we do separate chapters, don't we? Separate voices, separate chapters when we start off. But we'd been married quite a long time before we decided to team up.
Yeah, just after our daughter was born, we came up with the idea for a novel. Our first novel, People Like Her, is about a parenting influencer. And so about six months after our daughter was born, we came up with this idea for a plot and just sort of started writing.
So I think over the years, you'd written other stuff, hadn't you? I was a journalist.
And Paul had written a couple of novels. So we did have a background in writing, but it wasn't until we had no social life and a six month old stuck in the house that we actually started to write a novel.
Are you quite good at switching off or do you find that you live in the novel that you're writing? Like over dinner you're talking about it or it keeps popping up in your mind? Or do you have sort of boundaries about when it's work chat and when it's life?
We used to do it more, didn't we? And I think as our daughters got older...
she's eight now because we know you're plotting a murder and you can't really when you're like well now she's got strong thoughts about uh you know about whether we should put a unicorn in the book um and have you gone for the unicorn idea it's a strong idea go for that okay so time to burn let's get into the book a story of time travel gone wrong what's happening It's set in the very near future. Commercial time travel is a reality and it's been perfected by this obsessive tech entrepreneur called Inigo Frank.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:19
2
Who are Ellery Lloyd and why do Colette Lyons and Paul Vlitos write under a joint pseudonym?
8:19–10:02
3
How do Colette and Paul manage marriage and co-writing without conflict?
10:02–12:36
4
How do the authors plan and divide the writing when collaborating?
12:36–16:06
Speakers
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