In this episode of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, I’m talking to Katie Lumsden about her historical novel The Secrets of Hartwood Hall. This episode is a fascinating one. Katie had an agent for seven years, wrote several books that went on submission and unfortunately failed to get a book deal and she's also been a fiction editor for a Big 5 publisher, so she's really seen things from the other side. In this episode we discuss all of that, as well as her playing with gothic tropes, purposefully writing for the market and whether a following on social media makes a difference in terms of book sales.
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Buy The Secrets of Hartwood Hall: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9780241556078
Follow Katie on Twitter: @katiejlumsden
Katie's BookTube channel - Books and Things
(mentioned: Writer's HQ Plotstormers course)
Follow Chloe on Twitter: @clotimms
Buy Chloe's debut novel The Seawomen: https://linktr.ee/chloetimms
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