Ask the Author: Alice Allan
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Alice Allan
Sleep. Live. Everything has its own cycle. I need to 'do' in order to be able to write. If I'm distracted I put in ear-plugs and get myself into a sort of writers-trance...which my kids usually break me out of after about 10 minutes by yelling, "Mum...where's my blue t-shirt?!"
Alice Allan
Sniffing a freshly printed book. Having strangers tell you that you made them cry.
Alice Allan
Get used to rejection. Read a lot. Be inspired by others. Trust your story and your characters. Mean it.
Alice Allan
A Masters Degree in Public Health Promotion! And editing two teenage novels...and I have a number of plot lines bubbling away in the background, waiting for the right moment to erupt.
Alice Allan
By strong emotions and human relationships, the desire to capture the essence of a place, questions about 'what if...?' And by pounding the streets of Tashkent every morning with my big Ethiopian street dog, Frank.
Alice Allan
I worked for four years in hospitals in Ethiopia as a breastfeeding specialist. My book is a response to working with very tiny babies, whose mothers were too sick to be with them. I very much wanted to take them out of their incubators and hold them, but professionally it was not allowed. So I wrote a character who does just that -- she protects an abandoned baby by holding it skin to skin, in Kangaroo care, little realising what effect the baby will have on her.
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