Black teeth by Zane Lovitt: 16 March, 2017

"Lovitt was the Ned Kelly Award-winning author of the collection The Midnight Promise, and this full-length novel is another testament to his skills as a storyteller. The voice of Jason, an ungainly tech-head who would righteously mock me in online forums for using the phrase ‘tech-head’, is clear and true: a man shrouded in anxiety and embedded in the world of his laptop, infrequently surfacing under a new identity to face the world and stitch someone up." – Fiona Hardy

Zane Lovitt was a documentary filmmaker before turning his hand to crime fiction. His debut novel, The midnight promise, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, and led to Zane being named one of the Best Young Novelists of 2013 by the Sydney Morning Herald.

Zane will join us for a Q&A on Thursday, 9 March between 8 and 9pm. Please leave any questions you have below. (And discuss his writing at your leisure!)

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Hi Zane - a lot of writers talk about second novel syndrome – did you find it harder to write your second book?
- What’s particularly appealing about writing in the thriller genre?

Hello Jemma

I did find it hard and I think I experienced some aspect of 'the difficult second album', but perhaps I just needed to not overthink and stick to writing stuff that I liked. Which I did. I'm fortunate in that I don't really get writer's block - I've always got a load to write about - but I take a long time to write it. This book took four years. Hopefully the next one will be faster.

As for the genre, I find that suspense is my favourite part of stories. And it exists in all genres. But thrillers are where the writer knowingly set out to create suspense, and so it's easily the most appealing to me, as a reader and a writer.

cheers
z