My very first fan Elisa Hordon interviews me

As authors we wouldn’t exist without readers. It’s as simple as that. So when I embarked on my historical fiction rebrand, I vowed to myself that I’d personally get to know my die-hard fans from the beginning and keep them in my orbit. Fans like Elisa Hordon are the making of Hannah Byron. I mean how can you resist a reader who compares your writing style to that of Barbra Taylor Bradford and Judith Krantz?

On the happy day of the release of my second book in The Resistance girl Series, Elisa interviews me. Let me give the floor to my friend from down-under.

My name is Elisa Hordon, I live in sunny Queensland, Australia and I am an avid book reader and reviewer. Today I’m interviewing the amazing Hannah Byron on the release of her latest novel The Diamond Courier. This was a must-read book for me after already falling in love with Hannah’s writing after I read the prequel, In Picardy’s Fields.

Cover of The Diamond Courier

So, Hannah when did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

When I held my first pen at the age of 4, Elisa. Tongue out of my mouth, I produced the same letter over and over until I mastered first the letters, then the words and finally the sentences. I never stopped writing and wrote my first stories at age 8 inspired by Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five. I had two sets of twins and multiple dogs. Loved imagining big from an early age. Alas, no proof of any of that early toil today but here’s a picture of me at age 4 with my big sister. You can already see the heavy responsibility of storyteller resting of the shoulders of the young author.