Novel Experience

CJ Wray, author of THE EXCITEMENTS shares her advice to getting unstuck in your writing.

Guest Author: CJ Wray Twitter: @chrissymanby IG: @cjwrayauthor Books: The Excitements by CJ Wray

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

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Women’s Prize, RSL Ondaatje Prize, Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize and Nota Bene Prize shortlisted author Priscilla Morris, author of BLACK BUTTERFLIES.

Priscilla chats about:

• How living in Brazil finally gave her the confidence to write
• Being inspired by her own family history
• How her research involved as much talking and listening as it did reading
• Her experience of teaching creative writing before and after being a published author

Priscilla’s reading recommendations:
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
My Friends by Hisham Matar

Guest Author: Priscilla Morris IG: @priscillamorriswriter Books: Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

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

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Rajasree Variyar author of THE DAUGHTERS OF MADURAI

Guest: Rajasree Variyar Twitter: @raji_warrior IG: @raji_warrior
Books: The Daughters of Madurai

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

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Rosie Andrews, bestselling author of THE LEVIATHAN and the forthcoming THE PUZZLE WOOD

Rosie chats about:

• How her years of teaching experience before she started writing feeds into her novels
• How she keeps genre at the front of her mind when crafting her work
• Why she starts writing in the middle of her story and goes back to write the beginning once she has discovered the ending
• How she deals with the research and details of writing the history her novels requires

Rosie’s reading recommendations:
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Wakenhurst by Michelle Paver
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
Lillith by Nikki Marmery

Guest Author: Rosie Andrews Twitter: @RosieAndrews Books: The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews, The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews

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

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Amy Engel author of I DID IT FOR YOU

Guest Author: Amy Engel IG: @amyengelauthor Twitter: @aengelwrites Books: I Did It For You by Amy Engel

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

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Booker, Wellcome Book and Women’s Prize shortlisted; Future Awards Africa, Prix Les Afriques & 9mobile Prize winning, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, author of A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS and STAY WITH ME.

Ayọ̀bámi chats about:

• How she visualises the structure of her novels as she writes them.
• Why she chose to study a creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia after gaining her BA & MA from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.
• How she used Nigerian novels that she loves in the writing of her Booker Prize shortlisted novel
• How her interest in theatre and experience as a playwright informs the prose in her novels.

Guest Author: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Twitter: @AyobamiAdebayo IG: @ayobamiadebayo Books: A Spell Of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ & Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀


Ayọ̀bámi’s reading recommendations:
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Home Fires by Kamilla Shamsie

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

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Editor, publisher and bestselling author Phoebe Morgan, author of THE WILD GIRLS.

Guest Author: Phoebe Morgan Twitter: @Phoebe_A_Morgan IG: @phoebeannmorgan Books: THE WILD GIRLS by Phoebe Morgan, THE BABYSITTER by Phoebe Morgan, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR by Phoebe Morgan, THE DOLL HOUSE by Phoebe Morgan

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

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Something a little different this week...an episode swap with Not Too Busy To Write. I'm a big fan of Penny Wincer's podcast and I was delighted to be her guest back in October. And I'm really pleased to share that episode here today. Not only is it a great opportunity to draw your attention to another great writing podcast but as I am Penny's guest in this episode, we thought it might be fun for regular Novel Experience listeners to hear the interviewer become the interviewee!

About Not Too Busy To Write:

Penny Wincer is not too busy to write. Except of course, sometimes she’s too busy to write as much as she would like. Join Penny as she speaks to authors working in a variety of genres, from non-fiction, literary fiction, crime, romance to memoir, as they navigate the world of writing, publishing and creativity whilst juggling the demands of life and other paid and unpaid work.

Find out more about the podcast & Penny: https://www.pennywincerwrites.com/not-too-busy-to-write-podcast

About this episode:

Kate Sawyer is novelist and podcaster with a background in theatre producing and acting. Her first novel The Stranding was shortlisted for the Costa first novel award in 2021 and today we are talking about her second novel This Family. We talk about how her career in theatre has fed into her work as a novelist, genre expectations and how being a solo mother by choice made her rethink how she was going to earn a living and flex her creative muscles.Kate is the host of the wonderful podcast Novel Experience - if you are a fan of Not Too Busy To Write, then this is right up your street. Available on all your favourite podcast feeds.
This Family - Kate Sawyer
The Stranding - Kate Sawyer
Novel Experience podcast with Kate Sawyer
Follow Kate on Instagram - @mskatesawyer
Follow Penny on Instagram - @pennywincer

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Novel Experience will be back with a new series in the first week of January - but until then - wishing you all a peaceful and happy New Year!

Lizzie Huxley-Jones, author of MAKE YOU MINE THIS CHRISTMAS gives their top three tips to stoke creativity when they're feeling stuck in their writing.

Guest Author: Lizzie Huxley-Jones Twitter: @littlehux IG: @littlehux Books: Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

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

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