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From Police Report...to Prose

(Photo by Corey Garland, Garland Photography)

If If fiction writers can learn from police reports, true crime writers have the tricky task of transforming those reports into prose. Word of Mouth Senior Producer Rebecca Lavoie is also a true crime author. She and her husband Kevin Flynn have written and published two books, in the genre. One detailed the caseof New Hampshire lawyer Seth Beder, convicted for murderinghis ex-wife, Vicki.  Take a listen to Rebecca and Kevin demonstrating how they rendered a police report from that case into a climactic scene for readers.

 

Rebecca oversees the team that makes NHPR podcasts, including Outside/In and Civics 101. She has previously served as NHPR's Director of Audience & Engagement, Digital Director, and Senior Producer for Word of Mouth.
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