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Gavin Bell

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Born

in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

Website

https://gavinbell.net/

Twitter

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Genre

Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Influences

Stephen King, James Ellroy, Gillian Flynn, Shirley Jackson, Tom Wolfe, ...more

Member Since

April 2012

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Gavin Bell is the author of 138 Main, published in 2026 by Simon & Schuster.

Under the pseudonym of Mason Cross, Gavin wrote the Carter Blake series of thrillers published by Orion. The first, The Killing Season, was published in 2014 and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. It was followed by four further novels in the series, including the Richard and Judy Book Club selection, The Samaritan. He has also written standalone thrillers as Alex Knight, including Hunted and Darkness Falls.

He lives in Glasgow with his wife and three children.

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Writing a first draft

An architect working on a draft with a pencil and ruler

Photo by Daniel McCullough on Unsplash

One of my writer friends, Steve Mosby, calls the first draft his vomit draft, and ever since I heard that, that’s the way I’ve thought of it too. The goal of the first draft is to get the ideas out, no matter how much of a mess it makes. You can worry about clean-up later.

Having written more than ten novels, I’ve worked out some things do to ahead of that

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