Novel Experience

Author Liz Hyder shares some advice that helps her to break through block when she becomes stuck in her writing.

Guest: Liz Hyder Twitter: @londonbessie Instagram: @londonbessie
Books: THE ILLUSIONS, THE GIFTS, BEARMOUTH

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Author, Editor and Podcaster Alice Slater. Author of Death of A Bookseller a slighted twisted crime thriller about bookselling, obsession and true crime.
Alice chats about:

• Her love for booksellers
• Her background in bookselling, how it fed into the way she wrote her book and how she’s approached being published herself
• Her work with and being inspired by Mslexia
• How copywriting for a day job creates a habit and discipline
• How one character can sometimes end up becoming several over the drafting process.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did recording it. All the books we mention are listed in the show notes along with links for Alice's brilliant debut and all her social media. And if you do enjoy the podcast, please don’t forget to rate and review wherever you listen, - it makes a huge difference to people, who might find this podcast helpful, finding us!
Guest Author: Alice Slater Twitter: @AlicemjSlater IG: @alicemjslater Books: DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER Podcast: WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family (coming May 2023.
Alice’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Alice’s work: Savage Appetites by Rachel Munroe, Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
A book Alice has always loved: The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: Big Swiss by Jen Began, Penance by Eliza Clarke

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Anne Griffin author of WHEN ALL IS SAID, LISTENING STILL and THE ISLAND OF LONGING her powerful new novel about grief, hope and community
Anne chats about:

• Her background as a book buyer
• How she was in her mid-forties before she started writing
• How she wrote a novel with the title of her third book, before she was published
• Second novel ‘syndrome’ being very real but third novel syndrome being a thing too
• Writing about sad things

Guest Author: Anne Griffin Twitter: @AnneGriffin_ IG: @AnnegriffinWriter Books: WHEN ALL IS SAID, LISTENING STILL and THE ISLAND OF LONGING

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

Anne Griffin recommendations:
A book for fans of Anne’s work: Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler, Digging to America by Anne Tyler
A book Anne has always loved: Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick



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Karen Angelico author of Everything We Are a beautifully written a dark and addictive exploration of modern relationships, which plumbs the depths of the human heart.
Karen chats about:

• Her background as an antique jewellery valuer and recruitment consultant
• Writing with the pram in the hall (or in her case, four prams in the hall!)
• The biggest thing that has stayed with her since her time on the MA for Creative Writing at UEA
• How your agent and editor relationships are so important to your publishing journey
• Writing characters in midlife

Recorded at HARRIS & HARRIS BOOKS, Clare. Thanks to Kate & Emily for making us so welcome in such a beautiful shop! IG: @harrisharrisbooks
Guest Author: Karen Angelico Twitter: @AngelicoKaren IG: @karen_angelico Books: EVERYTHING WE ARE
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family (coming May 2023.
Karen’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Karen’s work: Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller & Is This Love? By CE Riley
A book Karen has always loved: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Still Life by AS Byatt, Babel Tower by AS Byatt, A Whistling Woman by AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood, This Family by Kate Sawyer
Other books discussed in this episode: The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller, All The Birds Singing by Evie Wylde
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Author and Screenwriter Wiz Wharton, author of GHOST GIRL, BANANA a brilliant historical fiction novel told in two time lines, one in London and one in Hong Kong, about family, identity and belonging.

Wiz chats about:

• How she trained to write for stage and screen before turning her hand to fiction
• How she turned down offers for her first novel because she realised it wasn’t in the genre she wanted to write.
• How a discovery when clearing out her mother’s house led to the idea for her debut novel
• How using two timelines helped her to explore intergenerational trauma and social change in her writing
• Why she chose the title of her book at the very beginning and why she did

Guest Author: Wiz Wharton Twitter: @Chomsky IG: @WizWharton Books: GHOST GIRL, BANANA
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family (coming May 2023.
Wiz’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Wiz’s work: The Leavers by Lisa Ko
A book Wiz has always loved: We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: Bellies by Nicola Dinan & This Family by Kate Sawyer

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Author Jo Browning Wroe shares the advice she always gives her creative writing students and the advice that she’s stuck to throughout her own journey to get published.
Guest: Jo Browning Wroe author of A TERRIBLE KINDNESS

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Elizabeth McKenzie, author of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN & the Women’s Prize Longlisted THE DOG OF THE NORTH which is an hilarious and epic road trip novel about family and finding yourself when your life has fallen apart
Elizabeth chats about:

• How exaggerating when she was studying journalism made her realise that fiction was the route her writing should take
• Why working in publishing was the best training for being an author herself
• How the notebook of rejections she kept is something she still uses in her teaching now
• How although her first book was sold as a ‘novel’ she actually wrote it as a collection of short stories
• How drawing on personal details and family history helps to draw her extraordinary characters because truth is stranger than fiction

Guest Author: Elizabeth McKenzie Twitter: @elmckenzie1 Books: THE DOG OF THE NORTH & THE PORTABLE VEBLEN
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family (coming May 2023.
Elizabeth’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Elizabeth’s work: Avalon by Nell Zink
A book Elizabeth has always loved: The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss, The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park
Other books discussed in this episode: The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

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Author Liz Nugent shares the tricks she implements to help stimulate her creativity or break through writers’ block

Guest: Liz Nugent author of STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND

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Jamie Fewery, author of OUR LIFE IN A DAY, THE WAY BACK and the just about to be published THE BRINK a rom-com told in reverse about a couple on the brink of divorce.
Jamie chats about:

• Being part of the marketing team who made Fifty Shades of Grey go stratospheric, and what it taught him about being published himself
• How the first novel he went on submission with wasn’t the book he first published but was what got him a publisher
• Being a man who writes about relationships in a market and how those books are his preference too

His experience of changing publishers for his third novel
Guest Author: Jamie Fewery Twitter: @jamiefewery IG: @jamiefeweryauthor Books: THE BRINK, THE WAY BACK, OUR LIFE IN A DAY
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family (coming May 2023.
Jamie’s recommendations:
A book for fans of Jamie’s work: Republic of Love by Carol Shields
A book Jamie has always loved: Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: This Family by Kate Sawyer, At The Table by Clare Powell
Other books discussed in this episode: Unless by Carol Shields, Larry’s Party by Carol Shields, Ralph’s Party by Lisa Jewell, The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbuck, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend, Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait

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Author Anne Griffin shares the advice she'd give to herself if she could go back to before she was published.

Guest: Anne Griffin author of WHEN ALL IS SAID, LISTENING STILL & the shortly to be published THE ISLAND OF LONGING

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