“Comedy crime sounds like it involves three clowns with a ladder they’re inexplicably bad at carrying trying to break into a pie factory. It doesn’t sound like there’s respect for the story.” Wham!!! Welcome to Wit Lit Series 2!!! Caimh McDonnell is a former stand-up comedian, prize-winning script-writer, and present full-time author, whose tenth book THE STRANGER TIMES is publishing on 14th Jan 2021. We talk about how stand-up gives an author good and bad habits, how to build a fictional world around your book, and how to describe the genre of a ‘funny paranormal kind of crime investigation but mainly about character kind of book’. You can read more about THE STRANGER TIMES, book, podcast, newsletter, and man himself here. Caimh’s recommended book is THE NIGHT WATCH by Terry Pratchett. (If you have not yet been convinced to read Terry Pratchett, then pls try unclogging ur ears.) He also recommends the elusive comedian’s comedian, Daniel Kitson. You can send me fan mail or indeed normal mail at @witlitpod or @witlitpodcast, or twitter’s @lily_lindon and instagram’s @bookymcbookface. Thank you for listening. Please be nice to Wit Lit by giving it a good rating or something.

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