Interview with alternative history novelist Alison Morton
‘Exercise your writing muscle in different ways on different days.’
Episode 66 – Alison Morton – Show Notes
- 30% plotter and 70% pantser
- Black moments: when it all falls apart for the main character
- Writing versus marketing
- Tea imported in from England – sergeant major’s tea
- Wanted to explore female-led action stories with a Roman flavour. But needed to create an alternative history world to feature strong female leaders. Values, betrayal, rebellion, resilience
- Alternative history research: taking history and twisting it but anchoring back to the facts.
- Using historical logic – what would have happened if?
- Collaborating with other writers, exchanging ideas, being accepting and giving
- A team effort to produce a book
- Robert Harris’ Fatherland, William Boyd’s Restless, Sebastian Faulks, Lindsay Davis, Georgette Heyer
- Aurelia: going back to write the backstory of the grandmother of the main character of the Carina Mitela series
- Writing short stories and novellas
‘30% plotter and 70% pantser.’
‘You do need other people to get a successful book out.’
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