Castaway Books

I’ve been asking authors to tell me about the books that have influenced their life and inspired their writing. Now it’s time to shine that light on Book Bloggers. Those amazing writers who tirelessly support and cheer on authors with their book reviews. This week’s guest is book blogger Sharon Rimmelzwaan.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

I’ve been asking authors to tell me about the books that have influenced their life and inspired their writing. Now it’s time to shine that light on Book Bloggers. Those amazing writers who tirelessly support and cheer on authors with their book reviews. This week’s guest is Anne Williams.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

I’ve been asking authors to tell me about the books that have influenced their life and inspired their writing. Now it’s time to shine that light on Book Bloggers. Those amazing writers who tirelessly support and cheer on authors with their book reviews. This week’s guest is Jill Doyle.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

I have been inviting authors to tell me about the books that have influenced their life and inspired their writing. Now it is time to shine the light on book-bloggers. Those amazing writers who tirelessly support and cheer on authors with their book reviews. This week's guest is author, podcaster, and book-blogger Jena C. Henry,http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

In this episode I chat with Eva Seyler, author of The War in Our Hearts about her life growing up in the Mennonite Community and she introduces me to the story of Opal Whiteley, the once celebrated, then controversial child genius who wrote a best selling diary. A fascinating episode. http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

In this episode author Mary Schmidt talks to me about growing up in the 60s and 70s, her nursing career and how she has survived the challenges life has thrown at her. An inspiring, resourceful, and talented woman.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

In this episode Marian Thorpe, author of the Empire Legacy chats with me about landscape archeology, connection to the land, and the poser of story telling through the generations.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

Beth Miller is the author of five novels, including Starstruck, and two non-fiction books. She is also a book coach.As well as sharing her wisdom on writing, Beth chats with me about the BBC radio drama, The Archers – one of her non-fiction books is For the love of the Archers, and a real life drama that she experienced at a young age. And then there was that conversation about a naked man on a motor cycle. I loved meeting Beth and hope you will enjoy our chat as much as I did.http://www.abra...

I loved chatting to Winnifred Tataw this week about her early years living in Germany, and how this experience along with a love of fairy tales and mythology has helped her to create imaginary worlds. Winnifred Tataw writes Young Adult fantasy and is author of the Gods' Scion series.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com

This week I chat with Karen Heenan, author of Songbird, about our misspent youth, character development in novel writing, canning tomatoes, and recording audio-books, among other things. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did.http://www.abrakdeborah.wordpress.com