The Joy of Writing

Anna and her guides Lars and Anna cross the ice and snow. Support the show Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna and her guides start the trek to Uektefjord. Support the show Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna reaches the glacier and hears the cry of the teenagers in trouble. Support the show Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna and Emil enjoy time together. Emil leaves to set up the anniversary dinner in the ice cavern. Support the show Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna continues her trek and reaches the glacier where she will meet her guide. She watches four teenagers play near around a dangerous moulin, a vertical shaft taking meltwater from the surface of the glacier to the bottom. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

The ice cave reveals itself to Emil. Support the show Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna leaves on her trek which takes her across country, reminisces about Emil in a place special to them, and reaches a hiking hut. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Emil is planning the anniversary dinner surprise in the ice cathedral. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna talks to Tomas, a journalist she meets in the hiker's hut. Tomas tells her about the people who meet at a villa at Uektefjord. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna leaves on her search to find Emil or what happened to him.  She milks her goats at the summer farm and asks Siegfried to take care of them. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

The first chapter from Emil's point of view prior to his disappearance. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Alexander leaves Sigrid and Siv and takes up the offer to record life in Berkeley's villa. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna buries her dead dog Gunnar.  She travels to one last address in Oslo to look for Emil but returns empty handed.  Birgit, her sister, tells her about how the melting glacier is releasing objects and bodies from the ice.  Anna decides to leave the next day and look for Emil again on the glacier and at the coast. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Alexander presents himself to Sigrid as Svein, her dead son.  Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna goes for a walk with her dog, Gunnar. Support the show Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

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. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Alexander embarks on an audacious plan to win Sigrid's trust. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

Anna, Emil's wife, finally opens Emil's will, three years after his disappearance. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

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 wom...

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. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

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. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what you hear!

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, p...

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. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider if you like what...

My guest is Fiona Melrose, author of Midwinter, published by Corsair in 2016.  We discuss the book, its themes of coming to terms with grief and a fractured family, and how living in Suffolk informed the story. Publisher: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/fiona-melrose/midwinter/9781472151780/ Midwinter is available in hardcover, paperback and ebook. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast...

Elizabeth Haynes is a best selling crime author - seven of her published novels started life in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a community-supported writing event where writers try and write a novel of 50,000 words in the month of November.  Learn about how NaNoWriMo works and why it's a good idea for writers to give it a go. Please heart or rate an episode on your podcast provider...