Category: Interviews
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Interview With Harriet Evans
Bath based author Harriet Evans is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author including A Hopeless Romantic, The Love of Her Life, Happily Ever After and The Garden of Lost and Found. She spent a number of years working in the publishing industry before becoming an author full time. Earplugs! Earplugs are the most important…
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Festive Interview With Luke Palmer
We’ve got poet and author Luke Palmer to answer some of our festive questions! We hope you enjoy reading them. Do you know what – this is the first time this year I’ve had a spare minute to think about that question! With three young children, I’m well aware my needs at Christmas come quite…
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Interview With Mendip Storytelling Circle
Mendip Storytelling Circle has been meeting since 2013 and gather to share stories of all types and in all forms. The stories are about ten minutes each and they are always ‘live’ rather than read from books. It depends on the audience. Stories are about our humanity and life experiences, so engaging in a way…
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Interview With Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward is a local author living in Bath, who is the writer of the bestselling YA series ‘Numbers’, the brilliant ‘Ant & Bea Mystery’ series, and standalone crime novels. We’ve been lucky enough to work with Rachel on our Murder Mystery – she’s wrote a fantastic festive mystery, which kept us guessing to the…
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Interview With Sophy Layzell
Sophy Layzell, was an author based in Somerset who was lucky to have had a childhood full of stories. Born in Laos, she was adopted into a wonderful family who prize creativity very highly. Adventures created for her by her father were the best way to start the weekend, and Tintin read aloud to her…
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Interview With Suki SilverTongue
We worked with the brilliant Suki SilverTongue to run two storytelling events: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups. One event was held at The Hub, Mulberry Park (Bath) and the other at Keynsham Library. We partnered with Inn Crowd and Libraries Connected to put on these events. Suki kindly answered some questions for us about storytelling and…
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Interview With OpenStoryTellers
OpenStoryTellers are a community arts charity based in Frome that run groups and projects to support people with learning disabilities and autism. You can find out more about the charity and how to get involved on their website: openstorytellers.org.uk Clemma: Because it helps people survive through stories and helps them tell their own and it…
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Interview With Emma Perry
Hello! I’m Emma Perry. Even way back then in the dark ages I adored books. Sure I chewed the odd one (and there was that one time with the crayon), but we’ll just put that down to untapped creativity. You’ll be happy to know I do less book chewing now and much, much more book…
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Interview With Emma Carroll
When Emma isn’t writing books, she’s reading them. Emma used to teach English in a secondary school but is now a full time writer. Emma says ‘It’s my absolute dream-come-true job! Emma has published over 13 books and this number continues to grow. I’ve always wanted to be an author, and always been in love…
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Interview With Elizabeth Jade
Elizabeth stumbled into writing at the age of fourteen and quickly found her story ideas pouring out. Elizabeth’s personal experience as a young author with the challenges of autism, depression and anxiety, along with her writing theme of acceptance and overcoming obstacles, have led to her having a junior school class named after her. I…