Today’s guest post is from Stephanie Lam whose first novel The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House was published a few weeks ago. Her journey to becoming a published writer sounds deceptively straightforward, but a lot of hard work and research underpins her sucess.
And I love the idea of emersing yourself in the litrature of the period you’re writing about…that sounds like an excellant way of breathing in the language and mindset of an era that’s disappeared.
Over to Stephanie…
I had invented a seaside town, Helmstone, and I was searching for a story that I could tell within it. I wanted to get across the same sense of fun that Agatha Christie does in her writing, while trying to evoke atmosphere and place so that the reader can get under the skin of the book. I was in the middle of struggling to find a plot to hang…
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