Anna is visited at her summer farm by her friend Fridtjof. He tells her that it has been three years since Emil went missing and that it is time for her to let go and move on.

Alexander embarks on an audacious plan to win Sigrid's trust.

Anna, Emil's wife, finally opens Emil's will, three years after his disappearance.

Beyond The North Wind was the first novel I wrote and was published on Amazon. I thought it would be fun to narrate and serialise the novel, chapter by chapter.

Here is the first chapter. Alexander, a young Englishman, is passing through Norway after the events in Magnus and, before that, The Book of Alexander (both published by Salt). His story will become entwined with that of a Norwegian woman, Anna, who is looking for her missing husband, Emil.

Excellent advice, from a senior lecturer in creative writing at the Open University, on all stages of writing a novel. How to start, keep going, and produce a draft ready for submission to an agent.
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What can a writer expect from a "writing career"? Ups and downs, highs and lows, of course! With experience comes wisdom. Learning about writing, books, readers, and the publishing industry never stops.

My guest is Sally O'Reilly, author of Dark Aemilia, published by Myriad in 2014.   Aemilia Lanyer meets William Shakespeare in the time of the plague, witchcraft, and a dying Queen Elizabeth, in this vividly imagined novel, rich in historical detail and speculation on who really wrote Macbeth.

Publisher: https://myriadeditions.com/books/dark-aemilia/ 

Dark Aemilia is available in hardcover, paperback and ebook.

We discuss several topics in this episode. How the act and art of writing books is central to Fiona's life. How her intuitive approach to writing translates into advice for her creative writing students. And how receiving fancy stationery as a present when young was an inspiration to write stories in the first place.