'Switching on the writing light'

 

“Myearliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awokeearly on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's Charlie and the ChocolateFactory in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book -and have possibly never been since!” – Sophie Kinsella  Born in England onthis date in 1969, Madeleine "Sophie" Wickham writes under the loosely termed style  “Chick Lit” through her 10-book Shopaholic series,translated into more than 30 languages. Her newest in the series is 2019's The Christmas Shopaholic.
  “When I had the idea for Shopaholic, it was as though a lightswitched on,” she said.  “I realized Iactually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, justfull-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, itfelt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.”
Kinsella's roots are in financial journalism but she branched into creative writing at age 24 with the best-seller The Tennis Party (re-released in 2012 as40 Love).  Since then, she has written nearly three dozen novels, the latest being this year's The Burnout. Glad she started as ajournalist, she said journalism                     

is a good foundation.  “Being a journalist is good if you want towrite books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have beendescribed as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everythingin life.”

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