Celebrating 100 episodes of this podcast, Charlie is Joined by Liz Fenwick, Emma Cowell, Ronali Collings, and Tammye Huf, for a general bookish chat. We start off with an excellent conversation on the industry's use of 'women's fiction' when the genderless 'commerical fiction' would do very well.

Please note there is one use of 'damn' in this episode.

A transcript is available on my site

General references:
Leonard Cohen's Bird On A Wire
The 'Women in Love' panel Liz was on was part of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2015
The Constant Gardener (film)
Desert Island Discs
Escape To The Country

Books mentioned by name or extensively:
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Elissa Soave: Ginger And Me
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Emma Cowell: One Last Letter From Greece
Emma Cowell: the House In The Olive Grove
Emma Cowell: The Island Love Song
John Le Carré: The Constant Gardener
Kate Atkinson: Life After Life
Liz Fenwick: One Cornish Summer
Liz Fenwick: The Secret Shore
Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy
Ronali Collings: All The Single Ladies
Sarah Winman: A Year Of Marvellous Ways
Tammye Huf: A More Perfect Union

Buy the books: UK || USA

Release details: recorded 6th May 2024; published 5th August 2024

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Where to find Emma online: Website || Twitter || Facebook || Instagram

Where to find Ronali online: Website || Twitter || Instagram

Where to find Tammye online: Website || Twitter || Instagram

Where to find Charlie online: Website || Twitter || Instagram || TikTok

Discussions

04:02 What is your genre? (The authors discuss labels in terms of gender expectations and marketing in this vein.)
08:25 How do you books do overseas?
10:40 If you wrote in another genre, which would it be?
15:14 If your book was turned into a film or TV show, who would you want cast in it?
20:33 If you could've written someone else's book, whose would you choose? (Some interesting discussions on individual writing styles here.)
26:01 What is the best fan or reader encounter you've had?
31:50 What do you wish you'd known before you became a published author? (Turns into a longer conversation about the difficulty of writing to a deadline.)
41:28 Can you remember any particularly interesting fact that you discovered in your research that couldn't be included in the book?
44:54 Tell us about what you're currently writing

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