{"id":106582,"date":"2025-09-01T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106582\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:02:09","slug":"writer-will-attempt-to-create-new-novel-in-guildford-bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106582\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer will attempt to create new novel in Guildford bookshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob DaleBBC News, South East<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756608068_155_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0d90b120-84ec-11f0-8c11-4fc052682191.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Kathryn Croft Kathryn Croft, a woman with long dark hair, wears a black jacket and poses on a set of concrete steps in front of a metal railing, her glasses pushed up on the top of her head, as she smiles into the camera.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Kathryn Croft<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Croft will attempt to finish her new novel, written in public, in seven days<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The public will be able to witness a new novel being created as the writer is penning it live in a bookshop in Guildford, Surrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kathryn Croft will make the attempt in Paper Moon in Jeffries Passage from Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She will try to complete an 80,000-word novel in seven days, writing during the shop&#8217;s opening hours of 10:00 to 18:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Her attempt will also be live-streamed on her website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Croft, who writes psychological thrillers and has already sold two million books, said: &#8220;This is the most intense creative challenge I&#8217;ve ever taken on, and it will push me to my limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I&#8217;m doing it not just for the personal goal, but to celebrate independent bookshops and show what it really takes to write a novel from scratch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob DaleBBC News, South East Kathryn Croft Kathryn Croft will attempt to finish her new novel, written in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-106582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}