The fantastic Sheila Bugler joins Kate and Michelle on this week’s episode of Natter to discuss her latest book, “The Stepmother”. This is Sheila’s eleventh novel and in this episode she shares an insight into her unique writing style of not plotting the book in advance and not knowing what she will write for the next chapter.

Sheila shares her writing journey and how it’s changed after publishing eleven novels.

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Welcome back to the sixth season of Natter! To kick off season six, we are joined by the brilliant Vicki Notaro. Vicki speaks with us about her latest book. “Anywhere But Here”. This page turner, depicts three women who are fed up with their everyday lives and escape to Donegal along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Vicki speaks with us about the inspiration behind the book & why she chose Donegal, the changing landscape of journalism, the leap of bravery it takes to go into becoming an author and how she structures her year to write a new book annually.

This is a Natter you won’t want to miss!

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Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen join Kate and Michelle to talk about their latest novel, Our Deadly Summer, a darkly funny thriller following two best friends who spend a summer at a Long Island country club in the early 2000's, witness something they should never have seen, and spend the next twenty years trying to forget it.

The duo share how their own J1 experiences and the reckless freedom of life before smartphones shaped the book, why they deliberately set it in a pre-tracking, pre-social media world and what it felt like to take their writing in a new direction while holding onto the warmth and female friendship that has always defined their work.

They also open up about how their co-writing process actually works, from flipping a coin to decide who writes the dreaded first chapter, to editing each other's work so thoroughly that they often forget who wrote what, to the discipline required to keep moving when a deadline is closing in.

A warm, funny and refreshingly candid conversation about creative partnership, nostalgia, female friendship and what it really takes to keep writing.

Key takeaways for writers:

• Starting is always the hardest part.
• Co-writing demands that you let go of being precious about your own words, the book matters more than who wrote which line.
• Writing simultaneously rather than waiting for the other person to finish keeps momentum going and beats procrastination.
• Dual timelines and shifting perspectives are exciting but difficult. Expect to rewrite yourself into corners and out of them again.

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