Not Too Busy To Write

Francesca Segal on creating hope in fictional worlds


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Francesca Segal is the author of Welcome to Glorious Tuga and Island Calling, the first two novels in a trilogy about the delightful fictional island of Tuga De Oro in the South Atlantic. Francesca talks with me about fictional world building, the deliberate choice to create a refuge and a community, not without challenges but incredibly hopeful as well as the influence of 19th century literature on the novels, and the joys and challenges of writing interconnected books. We also talk about Francesca's 2019 memoir Mothership, still one of the most incredible accounts of early motherhood I have ever read.

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Welcome to Glorious Tuga - Francesca Segal

Island Calling - Francesca Segal

Mothership - Francesca Segal

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