BBC Maestro and Lee Child Team up to Launch a New action Writing Course

 

BBC Maestro has today (Friday 30^th September) announced its latest course, Writing Popular Fiction from multi-million bestselling author Lee Child. Providing a rare look into how Lee created his iconic Jack Reacher series, Writing Popular Fiction covers everything from the power of storytelling, nailing the opening sentence and creating convincing characters, to how authors can make the best of the publishing process – and make a living from writing.

Launched in October 2020 to incredible success, the BBC Maestro platform sees world-class experts share exclusive knowledge and insight into their craft. Lee joins Edgar Wright, Alan Moore, Marco Pierre White and Gary Barlow in sharing wisdom, expertise and industry secrets. The BBC Maestro platform features a series of extended, in-depth lessons filmed in 4K with an eclectic mix of prestigious experts, and allows participants to indulge in new areas of learning from the comfort of their own home. The commercial online education platform developed and operated by Maestro Media Ltd offers individual courses which can be purchased for £80.

With well over 100 million books sold, hitting the #1 spot on the NYT and Sunday Times bestseller lists consistently since 2008, andwith fans as varied as Kate Atkinson, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami and Phillip Pullman, Lee Child has maintained a sensational level of commercial and critical success. He is the recipient of a CBE for services to literature and was named Author of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2019.

Now, for the first time, Lee will share the secrets behind his 27 books, lifting the lid on his unique creative process and showing how he put as much thought into planning his career as an author as he did into his prose. Spanning over six hours and presented in Lee’s inimitablestyle, the 35 bespoke course lessons include: Ditch the Airs and Graces, Research Is a Dish Best Served Cold, Don’t Fall in Love with Your Hero, How Not to Make Your Reader Seasick, If You Want to Be a Writer, You Have to Be a Reader First, and The Back End of a Big Machine, a unique introduction to the publishing industry!

Lee Child’s course on Writing Popular Fiction is available to pre-order from 5pm today (Friday 30th September) via bbcmaestro.com. 

Those who pre-order will get early access to three lessons: Lesson 3 – If You Want to Be a Writer, You Have to Be a Reader First; Lesson 5 - How I Wrote My First Book (Part 1); and Lesson 15 - Don’t Fall in Love with Your Hero.