Q1. Hello, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you.
A1. I am Kerry, I came to my writing as a place of refuge from a career in fashion and a decade spent in New York as a designer. I wanted to be able to speak about all of my observations on the people I have met and the places I have experienced. I am a yoga instructor and these two activities support each other as my writing comes from a place of calm and stillness and this is hard to find without the yoga. I have two wonderful grown up daughters and I live close to the sea in the South of England.
Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing your book “Voices through Time”?
A2. The key challenges are as with any writing project, how to keep the voice authentic and populate the story with enough detail to hold the readers attention.
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Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
A3. I read as widely as possible but the writing of Elif Shafak is profound.
Q4. What’s your favourite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you?
A4. I think anywhere in nature is nurturing for me but cities and beautiful libraries inspire me too. The libraries in Oxford are places of magic!
Q5. What inspired you to write the book ‘All our yesterdays’?
A5. All our yesterdays is an episodic fictionalised memoir of my life as a single young woman living in NYC in 1990s. It is the memories of the love, laughter, anxiety and personal growth that I experienced in those ten years of my life.
Q6. How long did it take you to write your book ‘Voices through Time’?
A6. Voices through Time took me a year to write.
Q7. On what platforms can readers buy your books?
A7. I sell my novels on Amazon.
Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the book cover and the title ‘All our yesterdays’?
A8. The cover for All our Yesterdays was made for me by a friend. I think she found a photograph that does look like the younger me and the mood of the photograph captures the mood of the novel so well.
Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and also yourself.
A9. Keeping writing fresh relies on reading all around the subject and widely so that you hear many voices. I also push myself to think about style and structure and this requires writing exercises.
Q10. What is the most valuable piece of advice you’ve been given about writing?
A10. The most important advise is from Stephen King who said it is a myth to imagine that authors know what they will and are writing about, you just need a daily habit of writing and a clear space and dedication.
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