How I Wrote My Book

Caro Giles lives in Northumberland with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One. She is at once alone and yet surrounded. Bound by circumstance, financial constraints, illness and the challenges of single motherhood, she has nowhere to go but the fierce landscape that surrounds her. Over the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveller through dark times, and companion through joyful ones – and even when the sky is wreathed in...

Caroline shares her secrets about how to create a successful multi-genre writing career in an honest, refreshing way with lots of practical tips. Writing as Cass Green, Caroline’s debut adult novel The Woman Next Door was a Number 1 e-book bestseller and her second, In A Cottage, In A Wood was a Sunday Times top ten and USA Today bestseller. Sleep Tight, the first of three genre-bending police procedurals, was published by HarperCollins in 2021, followed by The Whisper House, in July 2022.

How to start writing, how to keep going when the doubt hits, how to earn money as an author, how to get an agent and a publishing deal with Caroline Roberts. Caroline is the Kindle-bestselling author of eleven contemporary fiction novels. She lives in the beautiful Northumberland countryside with her husband and their cocker spaniel, Jarvis. The sandy beaches, castles and rolling hills around her inspire her books. She writes about relationships; stories of romance, friendship, love and...

78% of readers would like to be writers. Only 5% do. During this fun, upbeat podcast, Sunday Times No. 1 Best Selling Author and Writing Coach Michael Heppell talks about this creative process and how to successfully write, publish and sell your own book. Michael will be appearing at the Alnwick Story Fest at 25th February 1pm at the Alnwick Playhouse. Book your tickets at www.alnwickstoryfest.com

In her new book Living Together, Mim Skinner sets out to explore communities that have rejected individualism and nuclear family life in order to embrace a more collective way of living. In this interview, Mim shares her writing process and how she knitted together her own personal journey together with the stories of others around the UK’s communes, eco-villages and co-living spaces to explore about a more compassionate, connected and sustainable ways to live. Mim Skinner is a writer and...

Michael Chaplin is a playwright, television and non-fiction writer, as well as a former producer and executive at ITV and the BBC. In this episode Michael shares his creative process as he wrote his memoir and how he deals with creative doubt and pessimism.

In this episode, Tricia Cresswell, a retired doctor talks about how she changed career by studying a Creative Writing MA at Newcastle University and won the Mslexia Debut Novel Award in 2020. Her debut novel The Midwife was published in 2022. The Midwife is Alnwick Story Fest’s chosen town-wide read - buy a ticket to the event and claim a FREE paperback from The Accidental bookshop while stocks last (available now!)

Lisette Auton, author of The Secret of Haven Point, is a disabled writer, activist, and creative practitioner based in Darlington in North-East England. In this episode she talks about inspiration, creativity and her process of writing a children's book.

In our first episode Ann Cleeves, best selling crime writer chats to us about her daily writing process, where she gets her ideas and how her books became the inspiration for blockbusting TV series Vera.