by sharon zink | Apr 6, 2017 | The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
Today’s interviewee is the lovely Jane Lythell. I got to know Jane due to us both being part of Brighton’s Beach Hut Writers. We’ve done some literary events together, including a rainy day spent in a local park, where I saw Jane’s charm and...
by sharon zink | Mar 30, 2017 | emotion, inspiration, productivity, The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
This week’s interviewee is Sara Bailey, whose debut novel, Dark Water, has recently been published by Nightingale Editions to great reviews (and it is in my pile for reading soon!). Based on Orkney, Sara’s work is influenced by the island’s rich...
by sharon zink | Mar 2, 2017 | inspiration, productivity, The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
This week’s honoured guest at The Book Diner is my fellow Martha Beck coach, Sarah Vermunt. Sarah hails from Canada (you know, the country with the hot and compassionate prime minister!) and she specialises in helping clients boost or change their careers and...
by sharon zink | Feb 28, 2017 | #writingmojomarch, emotion, inspiration, resilience, writing challenge
It took me ten years to get my first novel, Welcome to Sharonville, published. It wasn’t just getting rejections from agents and conflicting feedback from editors which paralysed me and led to to me putting a MS which later was longlisted for The Guardian First...
by sharon zink | Feb 9, 2017 | productivity, The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
The Book Diner usually features fiction writers and the occasional poet, but today I’m proud to introduce a journalist, blogger and a former academic (like myself), Rae Ritchie. Rae writes fascinatingly about a wide variety of subjects, such as mental health,...
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