Clare Flynn’s Blog
Writers’ Rooms #12- Mari Howard
My guest today is Clare Wiener who writes under the name of Mari Howard. Clare/Mari is a descendant, through her paternal grandfather, of the same family as Sir Ebenezer Howard who created the concept of Garden Cities. As well as a writer she is also a painter, and...
Bali Calling! Writers’ Rooms #11
I have been very neglectful blogging lately - but the past 2 months have been very busy. I was getting my next novel off to the editor; I went to Denver to the Historical Novel Society Conference; I was in the process of moving house - something I've since pulled the...
Writers’ Rooms #10 – A.D. Starrling
My guest today is A.D. Starrling, author of the award-winning action thriller series Seventeen. A.D. was born on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and came to the UK at the age of twenty to study medicine. In between writing her novels she still practises...
Help at Hand for Self Publishers
I don't often use my blog to publicise non-fiction books but I'm making an exception today for Jessica Bell's new book, launched today, which is designed to cut down the massive learning curve and make it all simple! This 6th installment of the bestselling Writing in...
Writers’ Rooms #9 – Derek Birks
My guest this week is author, Derek Birks. Born in the UK, Derek spent his teens in New Zealand. After returning to the UK as a teacher he took early retirement several years ago to concentrate on his historical fiction writing. Derek lives in Hampshire. Show us...
Writers’ Rooms #8 – Katharine D’Souza
This week we peek behind the scenes into the workplace of Katharine D'Souza from Birmingham, England. Katharine sets her fiction in the city where she lives - remember - the place that according to that recent, hilariously ill-informed US Fox News interview with their...
In the Steps of The Miniaturist
I’ve just spent a couple of days in Amsterdam. It was an unplanned, last minute, impromptu reaction to reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton - my book club's choice for this month. You can read my Goodreads review here. I’ve visited Amsterdam loads of times before...
Writers’ Rooms #7 – Atulya K Bingham
This week our guest author is Atulya Bingham, author of award winning Ayse's Trail. Her writing room, a mud house in the Lycian hills of Turkey is absolutely breathtaking. What's even more impressive is that Atulya built it herself . Three years ago I decided to...
Pulling Teeth
Sorry about the rather gruesome looking set of choppers, but I visited the British Dental Museum the other day. I'd been really looking forward to it - I needed to get a feel for what having false teeth would have been like in the late nineteenth century. Sadly it was...
Writers’ Rooms #6 – Jackie Griffiths
This week we take a look at the workspace of Jackie Griffiths, who has been a writer of fiction and non-fiction for twenty years. Just over ten years ago she sold her online copywriting business to concentrate on her novels and short stories. She now lives in what she...
Dealing with Writer’s Block – or not?
I often get asked if I suffer from Writer’s Block and if so how I get over it? Disclaimer upfront! I don’t believe in Writer’s Block. I don’t think it exists as a condition. It's no more than a euphemism for one of the following conditions - laziness, procrastination,...
Writers’ Rooms #5 -Nicholas Vince
My guest today is the charming Nicholas Vince - the nicest man ever to appear in a horror movie - he was The Chattering Cenobite in Clive Barker's Hell Raiser films. With a background like that it's not surprising he chose Horror as his genre as a writer. Even the...