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Jun 6

Hester Browne

Hester BrowneHester Browne is the author of numerous bestselling novels including The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple, The Finishing Touches and Swept Off Her Feet. She divides her time between London and Herefordshire. Her latest book is ‘The Runaway Princess’.

  1. Your latest story “The Runaway Princess” is about Amy Wilde who falls for Prince Leopold and when they become engaged, a scandal makes him heir to the throne. But as their wedding becomes more extravagant, Amy begins to feels worried and unsure of whether she’s the girl, Leo thinks she is, especially when there is a scandal within her own family. But can she run from her true love and maybe return to her life as a commoner? What inspired you to write this type of story?
    I have a guilty fascination with poor Charlene of Monaco – did she really try to flee the country three times before her wedding, only to be stopped at the airport and have her passport impounded? I mean, really? Even if it’s not true, imagine being in a position where people are making that kind of thing up about you! And then her wedding photos! Even if she was overcome with joy at marrying Prince Albert, heir to Monaco’s glittery fairyland and middle-aged father of several unofficial kids, she couldn’t even have a little weep without TEARS OF THE TRAGIC PRINCESS appearing over the photos. And Kate Middleton – how must she have felt when Channel 4 made that documentary specifically to inform the country that her third cousin twice removed was a bin man? It made me wonder how much of that you’d put up with in order to marry the man you loved – and, in fact, if any of us got engaged to Prince Harry, how much damage limitation would we have to do to our own families? And what if the press started digging up more than you knew yourself?
  2. Sticking with the royalty theme. Who is your favourite member of the Royal family?
    The Queen. I think she’s an example to us all: a well-informed woman who’s worked extremely hard, way beyond the age that most of us would be retiring to our armchair with the Radio Times and the biscuit tin, she’s maintained excellent relationships with her colleagues (you can barely find a politician from any party who doesn’t admire her), she’s raised four children, she’s coped with family tragedy (and embarrassments) as well as national disaster, employed hundreds of people, found her own style, never put a foot wrong… God bless you, ma’am. And your somewhat under-appreciated husband, who was a total catch.
  3. To the readers of the website, that may not familiar with you or your writing, can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing?
    I used to work in publishing, and loved women’s fiction of all descriptions, from Nancy Mitford to Chrissie Manby. After one funny New Year’s holiday in Ireland, I was inspired by my boyfriend’s bachelor friends to write ‘The Little Lady Agency’, about a can-do Sloane called Melissa who sets up her own freelance girlfriend agency to come to the rescue of single men in need of wardrobe advice, cleaner-chivvying and mother-calming – in the guise of blonde bombshell Honey Blennerhesket. But if Melissa is like Kirstie Allsop’s shyer sister, Honey is Joan Harris from Mad Men’s alluring English cousin, and somehow Honey’s blonde wig and retro stockings unleashes a side of Mel that takes everyone by surprise. It was a lot of fun to write, and I was really thrilled when it was bought by Simon & Schuster in the US as well as by Hodder in the UK.
  4. What was the first story you ever wrote?
    I’ve always written little stories – my mum has my ‘what I did at the weekend’ exercise books from primary school and they go on for *pages*. Seriously, my teachers must have wondered how we fitted it all in. My sister was the same, but interestingly, whereas my accounts were long but with forensic details about what we ate and who was wearing what, Alex was far more imaginative, up to the point of inventing entirely new relatives and minibreaks that Mum had some trouble explaining away at parents’ evenings. Alex is now a teacher. I am a novelist. Hmm.
  5. Was there ever a book that you read, that didn’t live up to the hype that surrounded it and left you disappointed?
    I’ve tried four times to read ‘Birdsong’, and just can’t get beyond about page 100; I’ve also tried and failed with ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’. I don’t think it’s necessarily a problem with the book, though – sometimes your brain isn’t in the right place at that time. I’ve got a whole shelf of books I intend to come back to at some point – ditto, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and Wagner.
  6. What authors do you admire?
    I love Kate Atkinson’s deftness with words, and her inspired plotting – she plays with language and structure so skilfully, but never at the expense of the story. There’s a snobbery about commercial fiction, that it’s somehow ‘easier’ to write than literary novels, but the conventions are demanding in different ways: was it Hawthorne or Hemingway who said, ‘Easy reading is damn hard writing’? I admire writers like Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes, who are able to hook in a remarkable range of readers within a matter of sentences, and then keep them turning the pages, heart in mouth, right up to the end. It might seem effortless, but it takes skill to achieve that wonderful state in which you’re barely aware that you’re reading words because the voices are so alive in your head. Similarly, I love Mary Killen’s journalism, Anthony Trollope, Laurie Graham, and Nancy Mitford, for the smooth way they transport me into their own minds.
  7. What part of the writing process do you find most difficult?
    Finding the right names. It takes me ages. Until I’ve got the right names for the characters, I can’t really start, but until I start, I don’t know exactly what the characters are like, so it’s tricky. My agent must hate it; I keep sending her one-line emails with just ‘Helena?’ or ‘Kim?’ in the subject line. When I get desperate, I open my local paper and start picking names from the Births, Marriages and Deaths (jumbled up, of course).
  8. If you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you bring with you to pass the time?
    All of the Forsyte Saga – I love family sagas that unfold over generations, and this one is particularly dear to me, as I read it when I first moved to London, and all the references to the Mayfair mansions and ‘out of town’ streets slowly being drawn into the 20th century city remind me of the way I used it as an excuse to explore on the weekends. I’d probably take a long and difficult book I’d struggled to get into before, like ‘Wolf Hall’ (or ‘Birdsong’!), and then something funny to take my mind off things, like the Complete Works of Jilly Cooper.
  9. Out of the many books that you have read over the years, which one would you have liked to have said “I wrote that”?
    Um…. ‘Rachel’s Holiday’ by Marian Keyes? I adore that book. It’s so funny and moving and honest and sexy and real, but having said that, it’s wonderful because it’s so personal to her, so I don’t think I *could* have written it. The idea behind ‘The Last Letter from Your’ Lover by Jojo Moyes is simple and clever – I wish I’d thought of it – but then I don’t know if I could have executed it as elegantly. Predictably, I wish I’d thought of the Harry Potter novels, because like most people I’m a dyed-in-the-wool boarding school story reader with a weakness for bad Latin and clever-clever in-jokes, and I would have LOVED to have had seven whole books to ‘grow’ all those running gags and develop a cast of thousands.
  10. What area do you suggest a budding writer should concentrate on to further their abilities?
    Reading. You really can’t read enough – I hate being on tight deadlines because it plays havoc with my reading shelf! Read and read and read, and then write and write and write until you’ve found your own way of expressing what’s in your head. Then, read aloud what you’ve written – especially dialogue – to check that it’s what people would actually say in real life, rather than what you think they ought to say in books. Nothing will make you spot a cliche or a repeated word faster than reading it aloud.
  11. When sitting down to write, what is the one item you need beside you?
    A cup of coffee. Ideally, I’d have one of those hot plate filters so I wouldn’t have to go to the kitchen to make more, but then my blood stream would be about 75% caffeine. I have a scary tolerance to coffee, which I blame on habits I picked up early in my working life: my first job in publishing was an internship at a lovely art publishers in Kings Cross, where they kept two Italian baristas in reception to make proper cappuccinos and espressos for the staff all day. FOR FREE. (This was the late 90s, ie, what I am starting to refer to as ‘ye good old days’.) Because all the interns were barely being paid enough to cover the bus fare there, we drank a *lot* of free coffee, and as a result, did a lot of work, so I suppose they weren’t so daft…
  12. And finally Hester, do you have any projects or releases on the horizon which you would like to share with the readers of the website?
    I’m focusing on The Runaway Princess coming out today in the UK – I’ve finally got my website sorted out, which should be going live soon, and I want to make sure there’s lots of interesting new material on there for readers to stumble across!

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May 23

Abby Clements

Abby ClementsAbby Clements worked in book publishing before writing her first novel, ‘Meet Me Under the Mistletoe’. She lives with her boyfriend in North London and ‘Vivien’s Heavenly Ice Cream Shop’ is her second novel.

  1. To the readers of the blog, that may not be familiar with you or your writing, can tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing?
    Hi. Thanks for inviting me to contribute to the Handwritten Girl blog, I’m really excited to be here.

    I’ve written since I was little, and used to get up at five or six in the morning to work on my stories. My first project was a (largely copied) project on hedgehogs which I wrote in our garden shed. The second was a detective story, starring a mouse, which I wrote in our cellar. So hopefully the women’s fiction I write now is bit of a step on from there – and thankfully I have a proper desk now.

    After studying English at uni I worked editorial assistant at a publishing house. It was a dream job, with lots of reading – both manuscripts that had already been commissioned, and ones that had been sent in by aspiring authors. Through my twenties I continued to work in publishing, editing fiction and commissioning new titles and reading on a daily/weekly basis taught me so much about writing and storytelling.

    At thirty, I realised that I wanted to have a go at writing myself. The first novel I wrote for NaNoWrimo, the November novel writing project, and it was a brilliant kickstart for me. After that I went on to write ‘Meet Me Under the Mistletoe’ (Quercus), a life-swap story based on two school friends who’ve grown apart – and whose lives are thrown upside-down when a family crisis brings them back together. Since then I’ve written two more novels for Quercus, the second of which – ‘Vivien’s Heavenly Ice Cream Shop’ – is out this May.

  2. How do you feel about the current state of the publishing industry? Do you feel like it is an exciting time for authors?
    In so many ways, yes – more people are writing and engaging with their creativity, and through self-publishing are able to take their careers in their own hands and find readers for their work. That’s a great thing.

    At the same time, I think there are real potential downsides to the changes we’re seeing now. One is cheap eBook pricing and heavy discounting on books – this could potentially cause readers to see books as of less value and make them reluctant to buy a book if it costs more than 20p/£1. Long-term I can see this creating an issue for authors who are unwilling (because they wouldn’t be able to make a living) or unable to lower prices that far. It concerns me that this may lead to lower-quality books selling more that books writers have worked for years on.

  3. Who is your favourite literary hero, that you wished could whisk you off your feet?
    Nice question! On the page, I’m a sucker for dark, brooding, dysfunctional men – so it would have to be Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’.
  4. What part of the writing process, do you least enjoy?
    I love it when an idea is brand new, and I get to sit down and start writing. The bit I find hardest is when I first receive feedback from an editor. This is such an important part of the process and in the end always moves the book I’ve written on enormously. But there’s always a moment when I read through the notes, suggestions of how to reorder events, speed certain things up or change a character’s motivation, for example, where I freeze and think. Oh God, I agree, but I really don’t know how to do it!

    What I’ve learned is that rather than staring at a screen, what I need to do is go out shopping, meet a friend, clean the bath – anything but think about the book. By the next day, the solutions have formed like magic. So the one thing I’ve learned is to take a break and not give up.

  5. Was there ever a book that you read, that didn’t live up to the hype that surrounded it and left you disappointed?
    I loved the first half of ‘Gone Girl’ – so much so that I abandoned my weekend plans to hole up at home and read it! But there was something about the end that disappointed me (I won’t leave any spoilers here), and so that was a let-down. If there hadn’t been such rave reviews for it I probably would have been less aware of the slight flaws in what is a really good book, so it’s a little unfair on the author, really.
  6. If you weren’t an author, what do you imagine yourself doing?
    I’m a bit obsessed with dogs, so I’d love to be one of those New York-style dog walkers who take a whole troop of cute pooches walking around Central Park!
  7. What authors do you admire?
    So many… but in terms of commercial women’s fiction, Marian Keyes is tough to match. I love discovering authors who I haven’t read before, though, and recently really enjoyed ‘The Antenatal Group’ by Amy Bratley. She weaves together the stories of different women beautifully, never shying away from serious issues, and by the end you feel like you have a new group of friends. I love that!
  8. What’s your favourite book of all time?
    ‘Room with a View’ by E.M. Forster – it made me fall completely in love with Italy before I’d even gone. It’s deliciously romantic and beautifully written.
  9. If you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you bring with you to pass the time?
    I spend so much time reading and writing, hidden away in dark rooms these days, I like to think that if I was stranded on a desert island I’d sunbathe, swim and learn to hunt instead!
  10. What area do you suggest a budding writer should concentrate on to further their abilities?
    The first thing I’d say is make sure you are spending plenty of time writing. Only when that book idea is down on paper can it start to get any better.

    Secondly (although I’d suggest this comes before, after and during!) is reading plenty in the area you’re interested in. If you want to write historical fiction, for example, immerse yourself in that world, read the latest novels and decide for yourself what works and doesn’t work. Some writers worry that reading will negatively affect/influence their work too much – it won’t. And if you don’t read in your area you may find it hard to get the quality of your writing and ability to connect with an audience past a certain point.

    One last thing – don’t worry about procrastinating every so often. Everyone does it, and while you do need to put words on the page, you also need time for those ideas to percolate. So rather than feeling bad about putting the laundry on/going for a jog/chatting on Twitter in the time you’d allotted to write in, try and accept that as part of the creative process too.

  11. When sitting down to write, what is the one item you need beside you?
    It’s not so much beside me as on my computer – an app called Freedom that shuts off the internet. This ties in with the note about procrastination, above! There are limits to time-wasting and this app really helps me to avoid reaching them.
  12. And finally Abby, do you have any projects or releases on the horizon which you would like to share with the readers of the website?
    Yes, and I’m really excited about this one! It’s a sunshiney, feel-good novel called ‘Vivien’s Heavenly Ice Cream Shop’ that will be published by Quercus in June of this year. It’s the story of two sisters, Anna and Imogen, who inherit their beloved grandmother Vivien’s shop when she dies. It falls to them to make it a commercial success – and soon realise it’s a far big challenge than they expected! It’s set in Brighton, but the girls travel to Italy and Thailand, so while the drizzle falls in the UK there is plenty of fun (and quite a lot of romance) over there.

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May 2

Fiona Gibson

Fiona GibsonFiona Gibson is an author and journalist who has written for many UK publications including ‘The Observer’, ‘The Guardian’,'Marie Claire’, ‘Red’, ‘New Woman’, ‘Top Sante’ and ‘Elle’. She writes a monthly column for Sainsbury’s magazine and is a Contributing Editor at ‘Red’ magazine. Fiona lives in Scotland with her husband, their twin sons and daughter. ‘Pedigree Mum’ is her eighth novel.

  1. Your latest book,’Pedigree Mum’tells the story of piano teacher Kerry who moves to the seaside town of Shorling hoping for th e perfect life, but instead things drastically fall apart. What inspired you to write this type of story?
    It really started when we acquired a rescue dog a couple of years ago – I knew I wanted to write a book featuring a dog, and about a mum who’d been nagged half to death to get one – as I had, by my own daughter. It set me thinking, why would the mum finally agree? What kind of upheaval would the children gone through for her to want to make it up to them?
  2. To the readers of the blog, that may not be familiar with you or your writing, can tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing?
    My background is in teenage magazines – I started working on the now-defunct ‘Jackie’ magazine straight from school, when I was 17. Over the years I also worked on ‘Just Seventeen’, ‘More!’ and ‘Bliss’, until I had my twin boys and decided to go freelance. Finally, as I no longer had a staff job on a mag, I felt I had the headspace to write a novel.
    Was there ever a book that you read, that didn’t live up to the hype that surrounded it and left you disappointed?
    I’m ashamed to say I got really bored reading ‘Norwegian Wood’. Not enough happened for me. But I know so many people who love it! Perhaps it was a bit subtle for me – I’m not terribly highbrow. I like things to move along and I don’t have a huge amount of patience.
  3. What part of the writing process do you find the most difficult?
    Just keeping going, really. Starting a book feels great as it’s all new, fresh and exciting – and towards the end it’s fun to start tying eveything up, plus there’s the relief at nearly reaching the finishing post. The middle bit is tough though – by which I mean from about page 70-350… ie, most of it! Self doubt creeps in and there’s really no alternative than to grit your teeth and plough on.
  4. I always thought the opening lines to “The Lovely Bones” was quite memorable, are there any opening lines to books that stuck out to you?
    I’m pretty partial to the opening line of ‘I Capture the Castle’: ‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.’
  5. How do you feel about the current state of the publishing industry? Do you feel like it is an exciting time for authors?
    It’s now so easy to self publish and, in some ways, authors are gaining more control of how things are done. Traditional publishing is in a state of flux, but I hope that by selling both paperbacks AND ebooks, authors can still earn a decent living. I have no problem with readers buying my novels as ebooks, as I know how brilliantly convenient it is – I love my Kindle and have been reading so much more since I got it. It’s a great way to try out lots of new authors.
  6. What authors do you admire?
    I’ve always loved Anne Tyler, Lisa Jewell’s books always hit the spot for me, and I’m a big fan of India Knight too. ‘A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing’ by Melissa Bank is one of my favourite books – the writing is deceptively simple.
  7. What has been the highlight of your career so far?
    It’s hard to say, as the most recent book publication always feels like the most exciting. But I’d probably say getting my first ever job on ‘Jackie’, then the one on ‘Just Seventeen’. I loved my years on teenage mags – it didn’t feel like working, and pretty much all of my close friendships were formed then. But getting my current publishing deal with Avon has been great too, as we just seem to have clicked and they’ve been brilliant.
  8. If you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you bring with you to pass the time?
    I’ll pick three books I’d be delighted to re-read – ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ by Mark Haddon, ‘Ladder of Years’ by Anne Tyler, and ‘About a Boy’ by Nick Hornby which just made me laugh so much.
  9. What area do you suggest a budding writer should concentrate on to further their abilities?
    It’s easy to become horribly self conscious – ‘Is this any good? Will anyone publish/buy this?’ And those thoughts can be really hampering and restricting. So anything you can do to write freely, without that self consciousness, will help your writing. I think it’s important to find a style and a voice, which feels authentic and that you feel comfortable with. A lot of it is instinctive – you know when it feels right, and the more writing you do – every day, ideally – the sooner you’ll arrive at that. There’s a lot of trial and error involved.
  10. When sitting down to write, what is the one item you need beside you?
    A mug of decent coffee. I drink FAR too much of the stuff and cannot write without it. It’s better than the towering ashtray I used to have…
  11. And finally Fiona, do you have any projects or releases on the horizon which you would like to share with the readers of the website?
    I’m writing a novel for Avon – it has a sort of sugary theme and it’s about a woman in her late thirties who’s just dipping her toe back into the dating scene. She is sort of thrilled but terrified too, and her two teenage boys are completely scathing. It’s due to be finished by summer and is out in Feb 2014.

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Apr 24

Sophie Kinsella Reveals Her Favourite Opening Line

Sophie KinsellaOn the days leading up to the highly anticipated release of ‘Wedding Night’ , author of the bestselling ‘Shopaholic’ series, Sophie Kinsella joined Twitter for a one – off question and answer session with her fans.

Via the social networking website, we were fortunate to be able to ask the romantic comedy author, whatever our hearts desired and I was lucky that she answered my question. Here’s what I asked.

What’s your favourite opening line, from any book?
“If music be the food of love, play on”
Twelfth Night

You can buy Wedding Night on Amazon and is available to buy from good bookshops.

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Mar 28

Carole Matthews

Carole MatthewsCarole Matthews has written 16 books in 22 years, has been a Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and has sold over 4 million books worldwide. Her novel Welcome To The Real World was shortlisted for the RNA romantic novel of the year award. Her book ‘Wrapped Up In You’ was shortlisted for The Festival of Romance Best Romantic Read award and for the RNA Romantic Comedy of the Year award. She was also inducted into The Festival of Romance Hall of Fame for her outstanding contribution to romantic fiction. She lives in the Costa del MiltonKeynes with her dearly beloved, Lovely Kev. Her latest book ‘A Cottage By The Sea’ is about three best friends who go on holiday to a seaside cottage only for all their lives to change in a week.

  1. Your latest book “A Cottage By The Sea” is about three best friends who jump at the chance of having a holiday together. However, it doesn’t quite turn out as they planned. What inspired you to write this type of story?
    I love to write books about relationships, friendship, group dynamics and the power of love. And A Cottage by the Sea has it all! Sometimes when you confine your characters to one place and a short space of time it brings out the best in some of them and the worst in others. That’s what Grace, Ella and Flick experience when they spend a week together with their partners in Ella’s beautiful cottage by the sea in Wales. The relationships that they thought they had will never be the same again.
  2. To the readers of the website, that may not familiar with you or your writing, can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing?
    My first book – ‘Let’s Meet on Platform 8′ – was published about 17 years ago now and it was at the very start of the whole chicklit wave. I’d won a short story competition and, very sensibly, spent the money on a writing course. On the course, I showed the tutor my novel and she recommended an agent. Within a week he’d sold the book. I just hit the right desk at the right time with the right book. I’m currently writing my twenty-fifth novel and am really grateful that people keep reading and enjoying my books.
  3. How do you feel about the current state of the publishing industry? Do you feel like it is an exciting time for authors?
    It’s a very turbulent time in publishing and no one quite knows what’s going to happen in the future, but I think there’s an excitement in that too. There are a lot more digital opportunities for writers to be published at the moment rather than having to go down the route of finding a traditional publisher and that’s very liberating. There is, however, a lot of competition and it’s hard to get your book to stand out from the crowd. It’s a tough time for bookshops and libraries though.
  4. Who is your favourite literary hero/heroine?
    I have to go back to chicklit bible, ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ for my choices. Both Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy are just perfect in their roles and we’ve all been Bridget at some time in our lives. Just a great book.
  5. I always thought the opening lines to “The Lovely Bones” was quite memorable, are there any opening lines to books that stuck out to you?
    From Michael Ridpath’s book, ‘Free to Trade’: ‘I had lost half a million dollars in slightly less than half an hour and the coffee machine didn’t work. This was turning into a bad day. Half a million dollars is a lot of money. And I needed a cup of coffee badly.’ That’s a cracking way to open a book!
  6. Out of all the books that you have written, which one is your favourite?
    I think both ‘The Chocolate Lovers Club’ and ‘The Chocolate Lovers’ Diet’. I had such great fun researching them and who doesn’t like chocolate. I think they’re the favourites of my readers too and I’m always being asked if I’d write another one in the series.
  7. What authors do you admire?
    I love all of Philippa Gregory’s historical novels. She’s the only writer I rush out and buy in hardback. I particularly like the ones she writes about the Tudor court. For me, she brings it all to life.
    Beyond that I read a very eclectic variety of books and am always looking for something new to try.
  8. Was there ever a book that you read, that didn’t live up to the hype that surrounded it and left you disappointed?
    There are so many! Hype is so often due to fabulous marketing rather than the quality of the book. The most obvious is ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ which I hated everything about. I really can’t see why so many women enjoyed reading about a young girl being terribly abused in the name of lurve. I also struggled with ‘Wolf Hall’ by Hilary Mantel which has won every prize known to man. I found it very dry even though I usually adore anything written about those naughty Tudors. That won’t stop me from reading the sequel, ‘Bringing up the Bodies’, though! One book that I did enjoy despite the mahoosive hype was J K Rowling’s first adult novel, ‘The Casual Vacancy’. I thought it was beautifully written and keenly observed. I would, however, have liked just one nice character, they were all a bit too horrible to make me care about them. A hyped book that I did thoroughly enjoy though was ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls which is now firmly in my top favourite books.
  9. If you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you bring with you to pass the time?
    ‘One Day’ by David Nicholls
    ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ by Audrey Niffenegger
    ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ by Philippa Gregory
  10. What area do you suggest a budding writer should concentrate on to further their abilities?
    I think the mistake that a lot of writers make is to try to chase the market and write what’s in fashion at the time. My advice is to write the book that you want to and make it the very best you can. Without wanting to sound too clichéd about it, a book really does need to come from the heart to make it work.
  11. When sitting down to write, what is the one item you need beside you?
    A big mug of tea!
  12. And finally Carole, do you have any projects or releases on the horizon which you would like to share with the readers of the website?
    I have another Christmas book out this year which I had a lot of fun researching – ‘Calling Mrs Christmas’! The hardback will be out in August, followed by the paperback in October.

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