by Clare Flynn | Oct 8, 2018
I’m delighted to welcome authors Jean Gill and Karen Charlton to the blog today. They are both members of the Historical Novel Society (you might catch a glimpse of them doing the Gay Gordons on my blog post about the HNS conference) and they have recently...
by Clare Flynn | Jun 7, 2018
I’m delighted to welcome psychological suspense author, Linda Huber, onto the blog today. Linda grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, but went to work in Switzerland for a year aged twenty-two, and has lived there ever since. Her day jobs have included working as a...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 28, 2018
One of my novels, The Chalky Sea, is set here in Eastbourne during the Second World War. This is a book that I never planned to write – until two years ago, when I moved back to the town where I spent my teens and discovered something I’d never known then – that...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 22, 2018
I was in London for a meeting last week and had some spare time to kill before my train home so I headed to one of my favourite places, the Victoria and Albert Museum. I always enjoy wandering around the galleries or sketching the marble sculptures, but this time I...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 3, 2018
Often the trigger for me in writing a book is its setting. My imagination is captured by a particular location. There will be something specific that is the source of its appeal to me as a writer and then I think how I can bring it to life on the page. I then dream up...
