<p>Fear. There's a lot of it about currently. That's the currency of thriller and suspense authors of course, and our guest this week, British journalist and author <a href="https://www.jofurniss.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Jo Furniss</strong></a> is brilliant at mining reader's inherent fears. Her most recent novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guilt-Trip-unputdownable-thriller-Belinda-ebook/dp/B0DTRQHG6D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Guilt Trip</em></strong></a><em>, </em>poses a scenario all parents will dread: a minibus carrying the school swimming team never arrives back from a gala. The police don't know where it's gone and the school's 'no phones' policy means none of the kids has a device. They have vanished. Jo takes us through her craft, from original idea to finished novel, and shares the secrets of a great psychological suspense thriller.</p><br><p>Also this week, a Cambridge University survey suggests that over half of authors believe AI will replace them in future, and we discuss a new scheme to ensure the book you buy is written by a human, rather than a bot.</p><br><p><a href="https://www.jofurniss.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jo Furniss</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guilt-Trip-unputdownable-thriller-Belinda-ebook/dp/B0DTRQHG6D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guilt-Trip-unputdownable-thriller-Belinda-ebook/dp/B0DTRQHG6D</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>