EP364: Shona Kinsella — We All Help Each Other If We Can

British Fantasy Award nominee Shona Kinsella tells us about her new book Outlander and the real Jacobites, which digs into the real history behind Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. Shona’s career has been an extraordinary rollercoaster, and she talks openly about the highs and lows of crowdfunding, flash fiction, writing and editing a novella in 30 days, and how helping others has helped her writing.

In this episode you will discover:

Researching history during a lockdown.
Getting the rights back to your books.
And that moment when you get some news that leaves you standing speechless in your kitchen staring at your phone…

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Soon Kinsella’s website: https://www.shonakinsella.com/
Scottish National Archives: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/record-keeping/national-register-of-archives-for-scotland
Mr Stay’s experience of crowdfunding: https://markstaywrites.com/2018/05/16/five-things-i-learned-crowdfunding-with-unbound-books/
Jan Carr’s Wonder Girls unboxing video: https://youtu.be/E0IbTUG299o
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