Ask the Author: Emma Bamford
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Emma Bamford
Persevere. I sent two chapters of Casting Off to an agent and was rejected - the agent even said I'd never get a publisher interested. I sent the same material to a publisher at the same time and she liked it and asked me to send everything I had written. But then she rejected me as well! Luckily she kindly said she'd re-read if I re-wrote, which I did, and she then accepted Casting Off.
I could have easily given up at either of those two points, but I kept working on it and I got there in the end. Talents and luck are part of it, but hard work and perseverance also pay off.
I could have easily given up at either of those two points, but I kept working on it and I got there in the end. Talents and luck are part of it, but hard work and perseverance also pay off.
Emma Bamford
A domestic thriller set on a tropical island. A newly-wed couple leave behind their busy lives in London and buy a yacht in Asia, looking to travel and explore. There they hear of a paradise island only accessible by private yacht. They go there and find an alternative community of sailors, living a back-to-basics lifestyle in a beautiful, unspoilt place. But is life there as idyllic as it seems?
Emma Bamford
I am moving into fiction and it tends to be a sudden thought of a germ of an idea for a story. I quickly scribble these ideas down and then think about them for a while. If the story grows in my imagination, I tend to think there might be a novel in it. Then the writing process starts and some of the ideas just don't work out at that stage. so I abandon them.
I am also a big believer in experiencing real life. How can you write convincingly if you are shut up all day in your room? So I get out and about, I observe the details of things happening around me, and that helps the whole process along.
I am also a big believer in experiencing real life. How can you write convincingly if you are shut up all day in your room? So I get out and about, I observe the details of things happening around me, and that helps the whole process along.
Emma Bamford
I was a newspaper journalist and a colleague suggested there might be a book idea in my travels. I kept a journal while I was away and a couple of years later I thought 'I did have quite an interesting time. Maybe I should start to write about it'. So I did.
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