Interview with alternative history novelist Alison Morton

‘Exercise your writing muscle in different ways on different days.’

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Episode 66 – Alison Morton – Show Notes

• 30% plotter and 70% pantser
• Black moments: when it all falls apart for the main character
• Writing versus marketing
• Tea imported in from England – sergeant major’s tea
• Wanted to explore female-led action stories with a Roman flavour. But needed to create an alternative history world to feature strong female leaders. Values, betrayal, rebellion, resilience
• Alternative history research: taking history and twisting it but anchoring back to the facts.
• Using historical logic – what would have happened if?
• Collaborating with other writers, exchanging ideas, being accepting and giving
• A team effort to produce a book
• Robert Harris’ Fatherland, William Boyd’s Restless, Sebastian Faulks, Lindsay Davis, Georgette Heyer
• Aurelia: going back to write the backstory of the grandmother of the main character of the Carina Mitela series
• Writing short stories and novellas

‘30% plotter and 70% pantser.’

‘You do need other people to get a successful book out.’

Links

• Alison Morton – website
• Alison on Twitter
• Alison on Facebook

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