Clare Flynn, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/clareflynn/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:29:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How Working with a Critique Group can Improve your Manuscripts https://booksbywomen.org/how-working-with-a-critique-group-can-improve-your-manuscripts-by-clare-flynn/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-working-with-a-critique-group-can-improve-your-manuscripts-by-clare-flynn/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:18:24 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20974 I wrote my first four novels without any outside input up to the point when I sent the second draft to a small group of pre-readers, made more changes and then on to my editor. Then I moved home from London to the English south coast and started work on novel number five, which became […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-working-with-a-critique-group-can-improve-your-manuscripts-by-clare-flynn/feed/ 0 20974 The Inspiration for The Chalky Sea https://booksbywomen.org/the-inspiration-for-the-chalky-sea-clare-flynn/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-inspiration-for-the-chalky-sea-clare-flynn/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 07:18:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19881 I live in Eastbourne, on the English Sussex coast. My family  lived here when I was a schoolgirl and I decided to move back recently after twenty years in London. I have always had a hankering to move back to the sea. What I hadn’t expected was that the town had a secret wartime history. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-inspiration-for-the-chalky-sea-clare-flynn/feed/ 0 19881 Historical fiction – Modern Themes https://booksbywomen.org/historical-fiction-modern-themes/ https://booksbywomen.org/historical-fiction-modern-themes/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:43:39 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16158 I like to think of my books as offering intelligent escapism. While I write about past times I try to do so in a way that people today can identify with – posing the kinds of dilemmas and problems, challenges and triumphs that are relevant today – even though the way we respond to them […]

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