Today’s Saturday Interview guest is historical novelist Alison Morton. Welcome to my blog. Please tell us a little about yourself as writer and as person.Tell us a little about yourself as writer

The novel writing bug struck me in the middle of a bad film. Although impressive cinematography, the film’s dialogue grated on my ears. I turned to my husband and said, ‘I could do better than that!’ And he replied, ‘Well, why don’t you?’

Until then, my ‘word work’ had been translation, editing, generating commercial and government documents, financial drafting and two academic dissertations. The day after the bad film, I started bashing out my first draft of 90,000 words. When I’d typed ‘The End’ ninety days later, I didn’t have a clue what to do with it. Then began a three-year apprenticeship as a novel writer; courses, conferences, joining a writing association, reading, networking, critique groups, professional…