Sunday Times best selling author Alice Slater is with me today talking about her second novel Let The Bad Times Roll, a dark and delicious follow up to her debut Death of a Bookseller.

Alice talks with me about the pleasures of writing immoral characters, finding her way into her 'difficult' second novel, the challenges of shift work (and why bookselling is a bad profession to have alongside writing) and why she is no where near ready to give up the day job just yet.

Links

Let The Bad Times Roll by Alice Slater

Death of A Bookseller by Alice Slater

Alice Slater on Substack

The Fold Membership for Writers

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Listeners of Not Too Busy To Write can receive their second book FREE

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Caro Giles is an award winning writer and author of two memoirs. Unschooled is about Caro's experience raising children who don't fit in to the school system. Forced to homeschool out of necessity rather than choice, Caro weaves in her own experiences as a teacher at both mainstream and specialist provisions to uncover what is an inadequate and chronically underfunded system that is failing so many children in this country. It's a truly beautiful book about making the most of a system virtually impossible to navigate if you don't fit into a neat little box. Caro talks about how the book has been received in mainstream media, using your voice to stand up for those whose lives are at the edges and just how on earth she managed to finish the book to such a tight deadline whilst caring and homeschooling full time.

Links

Unschooled by Caro Giles

Twelve Moons by Caro Giles

Caro on Substack and Instagram

The Fold Membership for Writers

This series of the podcast is sponsored by award winning audio book app xigxag

Listeners of Not Too Busy To Write can receive their second book FREE

To redeem, download the xigxag app from the App Store or Google Play.

Go to My xigxag/Settings, then click on Account.

Under Vouchers, click on the ‘Enter code’ button and add your voucher code TOOBUSY to your account.

After your first purchase, your second title will be free!

Lily King is an award winning and best selling author of 6 novels and a short story collection. Her latest novel Heart The Lover is an exquisite and profoundly hopeful book about first love and first heartbreak. Lily shares the most incredible wisdom from her 25 years as an author, from waitressing to pay the bills, to the holding on to herself as a writer during early motherhood, to writing about love and hope in a time of political upheval.

Links

Heart The Lover by Lily King

Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Penny on Instagram

The Fold Membership for Writers

This series of the podcast is sponsored by award winning audio book app xigxag

Listeners of Not Too Busy To Write can receive their second book FREE

To redeem, download the xigxag app from the App Store or Google Play.

Go to My xigxag/Settings, then click on Account.

Under Vouchers, click on the ‘Enter code’ button and add your voucher code TOOBUSY to your account.

After your first purchase, your second title will be free!

Huge thanks to xigxag for sponsoring the series