Category: On Writing
Failure Is Impossible
My book, Women Who Launch: Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings, provides a well-deserved shout-out to the intrepid women who chafed against the established paradigm that the fairer sex was only meant to be their husband’s eye candy. These fabulous femmes left their imprints on society and thereby made great strides in levelling the gender field. […]
The Hollow Bones
It’s not every day you find yourself prowling around the basement of a natural history museum, being stared at by stuffed armadillos and long-extinct Tasmanian tigers. Then again, while researching THE HOLLOW BONES, I kept falling down the most remarkable rabbit holes, never quite knowing where they might lead. The idea for my current book […]
A Love Letter to the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Scheme
Writing is a solitary occupation. Anyone who pretends otherwise is fibbing. By the time you read this, I’ll be a published novelist with my debut dual-timeline novel The Forgotten Village. I’ve got a handful of really lovely writing friends, most of them local, some online, a fabulous agent and a wonderful publisher. But rewind two […]
From the Queen of Broken to King Unveiled
I was broken. Not my heart, but my mind, my spirit. My two greatest assets, the things I’d always been able to call upon, had failed me. The ledge of sanity loomed just overhead, a daily offering of hope, but I had no strength to reach for it, no assurance that even if I did, […]
Moments That Mattered: Excerpt
In Moments that Mattered (Page Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-64462-434-0) author Pamela Hull writes stories of ordinary experiences that were passed over or dismissed but in recall hold clues to lifetime behaviors, attitudes and choices. The span of our lives. Within each segment are disparate, illustrative stories of routine, everyday occurrences. Insignificant at the time, they eventually proved to be life-altering […]
When Tourists Come Home
Children do not get to pick the cities they are brought up in. They arrive as strangers and are responsible for making themselves at home. But what makes a city home? In the late 1980s my family returned to Lahore, Pakistan from Saudi Arabia and our status changed from that of summer tourists simply looking […]
Excerpt from Beautiful Justice: Reclaiming My Worth After Human Trafficking and Sexual Abuse by Brooke Axtell
A story of healing and a guide to seeking justice after sexual abuse from Brooke Axtell, one of the foremost survivor experts on sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking When Brooke Axtell was seven years old, her nanny subjected her to sex trafficking. Today, she is a champion and advocate for women around the […]
A Home of Her Own – How Jane Austen Found the Space to Write
One of the most frequent questions I get as a writer is “Where do you find the time to write?” quickly followed by “Do you have a routine or are you able to write anywhere?” I can always tell when a harried writer is asking, someone who is struggling to fit writing into his or […]
Interview with Caroline Montague, Author of An Italian Affair
Caroline won her first National Poetry competition at 10 years old and from that moment dreamed of being a writer. After juggling motherhood with modelling assignments, she founded an Interior Design Company working on many projects in the UK and abroad. Her second marriage to the widowed Conroy Harrowby brought four stepchildren into her life, […]
The Story Behind Gill Thompson’s Debut Novel: The Oceans Between Us
I wasn’t expecting the phone conversation to be easy. The voice at the other end was ten thousand miles away. And it belonged to an eighty-six-year-old woman. I anticipated static… mumbling… confusion. But when the call came, the speaker could have been next door. And there was nothing confused about Joan Thorpe. She remembered the […]
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