Bestselling historical fiction writer Stacey Halls (@stacey_halls) on her path from rejection to becoming an award-winning author, researching and plotting historical fiction, how she tricks herself into writing 2000 words a day and why we should always move on after completing a book.
In this episode we talk with Sunday Time bestselling author Stacey Halls (@stacey_halls) - author of Mrs England, The Foundling and The Familiars on how she approaches her first draft, how she tricks herself to write 2000 words a day, her planning, plotting, and researching process, and what it takes to build a life around your writing.
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ABOUT STACEY HALLS
Stacey has worked as a journalist at The Bookseller and Fabulous magazine, and has written for publications including Stylist, Psychologies and The Independent. Her debut novel The Familiars, immediately charted on The Sunday Times bestseller list and remained there for eleven weeks. Her second novel, The Foundling, was also a Sunday Times Bestseller. Mrs England is her third book. She’s been called 'next Hilary Mantel'.
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QUOTES BY STACEY HALLS:
“Persistence and regrouping after a failure is just as necessary as it is after a success. If you want to be a writer, you have to continually pursue ideas and in most cases write whole manuscripts with no idea of how it's gonna be perceived. You still have to find a new idea and write a new book. So it's in your interest to, I think, move on from every book that you finish writing, whether that has been a failure or a success.”
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