Three best selling authors with collective sales of over a million copies, share their tips on writing, submitting and beating the slush pile. Gill Thompson, author of four novels, including The Child on Platform One, Louise Morrish, winner of the Penguin Random House First Novel competition, whose second novel Women of War is out on March 27th,, and Suzanne Goldring, author of eight historical novels, will advise and encourage aspiring writers with tales of their experiences. Writer Libby Morgan will compere and direct questions from the audience. All ticketholders will be receive free handouts on how to write a submission letter as well as examples of elevator pitches for some of the three authors books.
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Suzanne’s eighth novel explores the pivotal role of the Quakers in organising the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of 10,000 children between December 1938 and September 1939. Writing full time since the success of her debut novel, My Name is Eva in 2019, Suzanne is now working on her ninth novel for Bookouture. Her books have been translated into several languages including Russian and German and are particularly successful in the US and Canada.
Gill Thompson, who has an M.A in Creative Writing, is the author of four historical fiction novels set in and around World War Two. Her second novel, ‘The Child on Platform One,’ topped the Bookseller magazine’s Heatseekers Chart and appeared in the Wallstreet Journal and USA Today bestseller lists. Gill is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Chichester. She hosts a creative writing website at www.wordkindling.co.uk
Louise Morrish is a librarian and author from Hampshire. Louise is passionate about women’s history, and her fiction is inspired by real women who achieved extraordinary things in the past, but whom history has forgotten. Her debut novel, Operation Moonlight, won the Penguin Random House First Novel competition and was published in 2022. Her second novel, Women of War, is published in March, with its sequel, The Library of War and Peace, due in 2026. When she’s not writing, Louise teaches creative writing for beginners at her local bookshop, Goldfinch Books, as well as online.
Libby Morgan is a former English teacher who is currently working on her third historical fiction novel. After a brief spell in financial journalism as a writer and sub editor she turned to writing fiction. Over the years she has experimented in different genres including sit com, screenplays and plays, short stories, and a comic epistolary novel. She looks forward to interviewing Suzanne, Lou and Gill again.
