Pam chats to debut author Lyn Yeowart about her crime thriller The Silent Listener - her characters, point of view and voice, and writing about trauma.
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In this episode host Pamela Cook shares her top ten writing craft books, plus a couple of bonus titles. If you want to see the books you can actually watch the video on the Writes4Women YouTube channel, and you can find the video on YouTube or on the Writes4Women website.
Whether you're a newbie writer or more experienced you're sure to find something of interest in this top ten list which includes books on inspiration, plotting, showing not telling, Nanowrimo and more.
Pamela also gives her personal writing update and reviews what's coming up on the podcast.
Grab your notebook, a pen and a cuppa and join Pam for this solo episode of Writes4Women.
Pam chats to best-selling author Kelly Rimmer about Turning Fact into Fiction in The Warsaw Orphan.
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Pam chats to best-selling rural romance author Karly Lane about her new novel Take Me Home.
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Welcome to the May Craft of Writing episode on Writes4Women today's guest on the convo couch is Lisa Hall Wilson. Lisa runs fabulous online classes on writing in deep point of view, which is where I first came across her a few years back. I really enjoy reading books where I'm deeply embedded in the main characters point of view. And I wanted to write them too. So I took a couple of Lisa's courses, which I found absolutely invaluable.
She's an amazing and generous mentor. And I have her to thank for the deep level of point of view I managed to achieve in my 2019 novel Cross My Heart. There's so much I want to chat to about Lisa today. I'm hoping that we can get through it all in the time that we have.
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April New release Feature Author Meredith Jaffé chats to Pam about her new release The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
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A Business of writing Episode…
Michelle Barraclough from Dresh Web Design specialises in websites for authors and chats to Pam about the must- haves, the shouldn’t-haves and the ins and outs of websites for authors at all levels of their career.
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Magical Realism author Tabitha Bird talks about what’s at the heart of her writing.
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In this March episode of Writes4Women Pam chats to Vanessa McCausland about writing dual timelines and multiple points of view.
In this March episode of Writes4Women Pam chats to Vanessa McCausland about writing dual timelines and multiple points of view.
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Uk thriller author and creative, Zoe Lea chat s to Pam about building an instagram following and the best ways to manage this social media platform.
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A Week to Remember is set mostly in West Cork and the Southwest of Ireland and also in the Northwest of Tasmania where I'm currently living.
But there's a newly renovated gues house called Lizzie O's and it's taking in its first guests for a week in the Irish winter, that none of them would forget. So, as usual, I've got a bit of an ensemble of characters sort of main characters and supporting characters in the community. And I've got a couple Mick and Aisling Fitzgerald who are going to celebrate a wedding anniversary they've been gifted by their family. They're Irish, but they're living in Tasmania and they go along and then his mother comes to Tassie to look after the children and kind of house sit. And so her storyline develops sort of alongside that of her daughter-in-law and son.
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You are not alone. Fear is pounding everyone. The easy thing for you to listen to is that you can't do it. The hardest thing for you to listen to is you're the only one that can tell this story. All fear's going to do is tell you to stop. Don't. Put it away. That's all fear is going to do. The chain is never going to change. It's never going to sing us a different song, but you are the only one that has that song in your head. There is nobody else that can sing it to life like you can.
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Two experienced authors compare notes on their revision processes.
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Joanna Penn is an award nominated New York times and USA today best-selling thriller author under the name J. F. Penn. She also writes nonfiction for authors and is widely known for her brilliant podcast, The Creative Penn, which has been downloaded over 4 million times in 220 countries. Joanna has written over 30 titles and sold more than 600,000 books in 149 countries and six languages. She's an indie author, an international professional speaker and an award-winning creative entrepreneur. She's based in bath, England and lived in Australia and New Zealand for 11 years, which I'm going to chat to her briefly about. She's also turned her love of travel into a newish podcast called Books and Travel and spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporates across the globe before becoming a full-time author entrepreneur in September, 2011. She has a new book out called Your Author Business Plan, which is mainly what I'm going to be talking to her about today.
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“Honestly, I don't feel as though I really wrote this book. I feel as though it came through me. I don't know anybody like Angelica, none of the characters are based on anybody I know. She's absolutely not me or anything like me. And it just emerged so I would write every morning. When I was writing my first draft, I would get up every morning, an hour early before going into work. I’d get up at 4.30 and I had a ritual with the right tablecloth and the teapot and cup, etc, etc. And I'd just sit down and the story would pour out for about an hour. And then I’d just stop. And that was it. It was done. And so, I was doing that every day. I think the first draft just sort of poured out over six months. I've got notebooks full of notes on the characters and the settings and the astrology and the numerology. Yeah, I do all that.”
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