Ask the Author: Anne Allen
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Anne Allen
Hi Elizabeth
My only experience is having my aunt and uncle adopt their two children and working as a therapist with adoptees. For my book ,Finding Mother, I undertook research in Jersey and Guernsey.
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My only experience is having my aunt and uncle adopt their two children and working as a therapist with adoptees. For my book ,Finding Mother, I undertook research in Jersey and Guernsey.
Anne
Anne Allen
I was sitting quietly on the sofa when a note was pushed under the door. My heart pounded - it was a cupboard door.
Anne Allen
I'm reading Green Dolphin County by Elizabeth Goudge as it's set in a fictional version of Guernsey during the Victorian period and I'm writing about that time. Also plan to read 'Take Nothing With You' by Patrick Gale and there's many on the TBR pile!
Anne Allen
Hogwarts! I'd like to be one of the teachers
Anne Allen
Hi Deanna, many thanks for your lovely message. I do hope you enjoy my books!
Anne
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Anne Allen
Hi Bobbie, glad you've finally got the right diagnosis and are feeling so much better.
Take care of yourself and I'll let you know when Echoes of Time is finished!
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Take care of yourself and I'll let you know when Echoes of Time is finished!
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Anne Allen
Hi Bobbie
Yes, I am writing Book 5 - Echoes of Time - but have been ill for a while so it's taking longer than planned. Hope to publish in the summer.
Best wishes
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Yes, I am writing Book 5 - Echoes of Time - but have been ill for a while so it's taking longer than planned. Hope to publish in the summer.
Best wishes
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Anne Allen
I wanted to use the main setting from my second novel, Finding Mother, which is a large gothic mansion now turned into a natural health centre and retreat. Then I wanted someone killed in the past and another one in the present, with links to an old theft.
Anne Allen
By seeing the overall plan in my head and then filling in the gaps. I need to have a clear picture of where I'm going with the story or I'll literally lose the plot.
Anne Allen
Book 4 in The Guernsey Novels series. I've just published book 3, Guernsey Retreat, and one of the supporting characters in that, Charlotte, becomes the main protagonist in this, The Family Divided. It's another mystery/ love story with echoes from the German Occupation in WWII.
Anne Allen
Just keep writing, even if you think it's poor. As you write, you learn and improve your craft. It's never an overnight success, being a writer.
Anne Allen
I love working out stories and inventing characters and then deciding what happens to them - good or bad. A feeling of control, even power, in one area of my life at least. And it's lovely to get feedback from readers saying how much they enjoyed my book(s).
Anne Allen
If it's only temporary, I'll stop writing and divert myself with a walk or make a cup of coffee. For a bigger block that stops me moving forward, I'll catch up with other things for a few days and then come back to it. The diversions rarely include housework, however ☺
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