Ask the Author: Amanda Larkman
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Amanda Larkman
I hope so! Let me know what you think :)
Amanda Larkman
Hi I'm so sorry to hear that! FRIEDA the sequel to The Woman and the Witch is out now and I'm currently finishing off the third in the series which I hope will be out late April early May
Amanda Larkman
You should probably read them in order as they are a Trilogy - Woman and the Witch first then Frieda. Hope to have the third one out this year
Amanda Larkman
Thanks, Gary - really pleased you liked the Bookbinder and thanks for the review! I don’t know why you can’t find the Woman and the Witch on Amazon - that’s a bit worrying! Here’s a link - let me know if it doesn’t work
http://amazon.co.uk/dp/B086K184T8
http://amazon.co.uk/dp/B086K184T8
Amanda Larkman
I’ve heard of that paint! Good idea for a story. I write late at night and during the holidays.
Amanda Larkman
Thank you for reading and your question! Liz was a character who jumped into my head fully formed as a damaged person with tremendous artistic and creative talent. She’d let her obsession overwhelm her to such an extent she’d lost the ability to see what she could achieve. Just before I wrote the book I got a bit obsessed myself with a shop window near me of a bookbinder. His window was completely chaotic and I asked him if I could come in and look around. I loved examining the tools and machines he had there along with the leather and paper (and dust!). I kept thinking ‘Liz would hate this, she’d reorganise it straightaway and clear out the clutter’. I think that’s when her job as a bookbinder solidified. I did quite a lot of research into how books were made and how books can be re-covered - which was most enjoyable. I called the book The Bookbinder because really it’s Liz’s story. So, no background in bookbinding just a keen, amateur interest!
Amanda Larkman
Whatever happened to the beautiful Marcasite necklace my grandparents gave me? When they died I was given a letter where they told me the necklace would lead me to solve a family secret. By the time I received it, the necklace had been borrowed and never returned many years ago.
Amanda Larkman
Hi Shane I write my blog one Wordpress and then when I set up my goodreads author profile I added the link to my wordpress web site. Hope
That helps!
That helps!
Amanda Larkman
My 96 year old Grandma
Amanda Larkman
Stories circling around my head.
Amanda Larkman
A thriller with a provisional title of 'Green Eyes'
I also have written a crime caper but when I sent it to an agent she replied that the central character (entirely based on me) was 'an idiot, and utterly unconvincing'.
I also have written a crime caper but when I sent it to an agent she replied that the central character (entirely based on me) was 'an idiot, and utterly unconvincing'.
Amanda Larkman
Don't give up! And if all else fails self-publish.
Amanda Larkman
Jumping into an imaginary world and just writing it all out in a lovely big flood.
Amanda Larkman
Sometimes nothing. I just sit and stare at the screen. The only way I can get through it is my FORCING myself to write. Even. If. It. Is. A. Single. Word. At. A. Time.
Painful, really painful, but it works.
Painful, really painful, but it works.
Amanda Larkman
Mum! You'd better come look at this.
Amanda Larkman
Good question! The world of 'What Katy Did', where I could sit with the family and eat some of their freshly cooked 'jumbles' whatever they were.
'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' so I could whack Corelli around the head and tell him to go and talk to Pelagia rather than sodding off around the world with years with his 'other mandolins'
'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' so I could whack Corelli around the head and tell him to go and talk to Pelagia rather than sodding off around the world with years with his 'other mandolins'
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