On Crime Fiction and Friendship: In Conversation With Authors Wendy James and Jaye Ford

On this episode of the Better Reading podcast, Cheryl Akle talks with crime and thriller authors Wendy James and Jaye Ford about their friendship, crime fiction, and differing writing processes.

Author guests

Wendy James:

Wendy James is the celebrated author of eight novels, including the bestselling The Mistake, the compelling The Golden Child, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for crime, and most recently, The Accusation. Her debut novel, Out of the Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for first crime novel, and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie award for women’s writing. Wendy works as an editor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and writes some of the sharpest and most topical domestic noir novels in the country.

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Jaye Ford:

Jaye Ford is the author of the chilling suspense novels Beyond Fear, Scared Yet?, Blood Secret, Already Dead and Darkest Place. Beyond Fear won Best Debut and Reader’s Choice at the 2012 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. Under the name Janette Paul, she is also the author of the bestselling romantic comedy, Just Breathe (available in ebook only).

Jaye is a former news and sport journalist, with the unusual claim to fame of being the first female presenter of a live national sport show in Australia, hosting Sport Report on SBS in 1988-89. She also worked in public relations before turning to crime fiction. Jaye lives at Lake Macquarie in the NSW Hunter Valley.