Join me as I chat with Finola Austin, author of the award-winning debut novel Brontë's Mistress.
Highlights:
- Origins of Brontë's Mistress
- Investigating Lydia Robinson, rumored to have had an affair with Branwell Brontë, the ne'er-do-well brother of the famous Brontë sisters
- Inspiration from Mrs. Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë
- Contrast between Lydia Robinson and the typical Brontë heroine
- Using Reddit for inspiration
- Shades of gray in Lydia Robinson, the main character of Brontë's Mistress
- Bad sex scenes: why we need more of them
- Reading from Brontë's Mistress
- Turning real characters into fictional ones: challenges & issues
- Lydia Robinson & Charlotte Brontë: not a good mix
- One thing learned from writing Brontë's Mistress
- Advice for new authors
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