Author Interviews

29 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Nicola Marsh

I love the editing part of writing. Crazy, I know, because the editing process can be long. Months of structural edits, copy edits, line edits, final edits, working on the ...

26 July 2019

Seven ways Marilyn Monroe has been a positive influence to women of all generations

Author Michelle Morgan writes an exclusive feature for Female First to celebrate the release of her new book, The Little Book of Marilyn: Inspiration from the Goddess of Glam. Here ...

Marilyn Monroe

25 July 2019

Megan Goldin reveals the inspiration for her novel The Escape Room

It’s never easy getting back into the workforce after having a baby so it was with some trepidation that I prepared for a crucial job interview for a job that ...

25 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Sherryl Clark

I grew up on a farm in New Zealand, in a small farming community. I was driving a tractor by the time I was twelve, and had my driver’s licence ...

17 July 2019

Don’t let trauma destroy your life by JH Morgan

The novelist and human rights campaigner JH Morgan’s life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted as a teenager. Today, the mum-of-three has turned her life around and ...

17 July 2019

Seven signs of coercive control in toxic relationships by Dr Sarah Davies

Narcissists and abusive partners use coercive tactics to threaten, intimidate and control others. This is highly emotionally and psychologically abusive and is now recognised as a criminal offence in England ...

17 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Mavis Cheek

My father was a bigamist. He left my mother unmarried, with two small daughters. She worked in a factory, (the men had returned from the war and the good jobs ...

17 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Rosemary Poole-Carter

The first of ten things I’d like my readers to know about me is that readers are dear to my heart. I deeply appreciate those who read and teach and ...

16 July 2019

Seven ways journalling can change your life

Take some precious me-time to write in a journal. You’ll find you enjoy impressive benefits if you follow some simple positive guidelines. Anyone can keep a journal, and it’s not ...

15 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Jessica Martin

I was born in Fulham, London to a Singaporean born father of Burmese/Phillipino heritage and an Irish mother. I was raised in North Finchley and although I now live in ...

Your Subconscious Brain Can Change Your Life

15 July 2019

Five rules of love everyone needs to learn by Dr. Mike Dow

Whether I’m doing therapy with The Bachelor or a Real Housewife on TV or working with the girl next door, I’ve found the rules of love are universal. Learn and ...

14 July 2019

How to curate your perfect summer reading list

When it comes to reading, most of us are faced with the exact same conundrum - we wish we could do it more, but there never seems to be enough ...

14 July 2019

Nine things I'd like my readers to know about me by Matt Harvey

To start with I’d like them to know that I really do look like my author pic. At the launch of SIT! at Ways With Words lit fest I projected ...

11 July 2019

Read the first chapter of Ella Dove's new book Five Steps to Happy

Chapter One It took three and a half seconds for me to fall. And yet it felt like slow motion. I landed awkwardly on the canal path. Stones rough against ...

11 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Jo Thomas

I used to go on holiday with cookery books in my suitcase. Nigel Slater has been everywhere with me! I love to visit local markets and cook in the place I’m ...

9 July 2019

What I learnt from writing my memoir by Dominique DeVeraux

The process of writing my memoir proved to be both a personal and literary lesson, which will add value to my life for years to come. After the break up ...

9 July 2019

Five things I learnt from the Victorians while writing The Seaside Angel By Evie Grace

When I was carrying out research for The Seaside Angel, my investigations took me in many directions from the history of nursing and healthcare, to the rise of the Victorian ...

9 July 2019

Victoria Cornwall shares the inspiration for her new novel The Daughter of River Valley

Author, Victoria Cornwall, tells Female First how as a gangly 1979 platform-shoe-wearing teenager, forgetting her past, inspired her future... Little did I realise that the events about to unfold, ...

9 July 2019

A day in the life of me by Annie Robertson

Before I became a parent, I considered 7am to be a painfully early start; I went out of my way to make sure alarms were set no earlier than eight. ...

8 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Agnes Gomillion

I’m named after my paternal grandmother who died a few months before I was born. She’s remembered fondly as a savvy business women who loved to cook – just like ...

7 July 2019

How two women I’ve never met inspired my novel by Sif Sigmarsdottir

Working as a journalist in Iceland, I was once blacklisted by a prime minister. But I got my revenge. He became the inspiration for the most obnoxious villain I’ve ever ...

4 July 2019

10 things I want my readers to know about me, by Ann Shakespeare

1. My first book startled me! I remember watching a friend’s Labrador producing her very first puppies. Eventually, she became a contented mother of nine, but it didn’t start out ...

4 July 2019

Some things I would like your readers to know about me by Fiona Collins

I’ve published four books, and my fifth is due out in October, but I think of mysef as first and foremost a storyteller - by which I mean that I ...

2 July 2019

How to find meaning in a random act of kindness by Sophie Jenkins

My first book, the Forgotten Guide to Happiness, has in it a character that was loosely based on my mother, when she was in her eighties. What the editor liked ...