After winning a Scottish children’s book award with his mystery novel The Nowhere Emporium, Ross Mackenzie his mystery writing secrets
Newsflash: Magic and mystery books are winners for Scottish children
When I first sat down to write The Nowhere Emporium, I didn’t really think of it as a mystery novel at all. It was just a story I knew I really wanted to tell. It began with the vision of an enchanted shop, a shop that moved around, appearing anywhere, at any time. But I didn’t know why this happened. So I wrote the rest of the book to find out. And as the story developed, I slowly realised that I was writing a mystery book.
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