#367 Abigail Bergstrom: How To Write A Novel In Secret

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Abigail Bergstrom is a Welsh writer, editor and agent, who has worked in publishing for over a decade. She is an industry leader and an expert and has edited some of Britain's most prominent feminist voices, she was nominated for Literary Agent of the Year 2020 and has helped build some of today's biggest book brands. But today, we are here to talk about her debut novel What A Shame! A brilliantly fresh novel with blistering humour reminiscent of Emma Jane Unsworth and the raw vulnerability of I May Destroy You. It is a book about female shame, friendship, grief, about trying to heal yourself, about trying unorthodox remedies to go deeper into yourself and explores both the beauty and the pain of figuring hard things out. We talk about burnout, the downsides of pushing yourself to the limit, writing a novel in secret, how to deconstruct your working life and how to reshape it. I loved this conversation and it was a treat getting to chat to Abbie :)

Abbie's book What A Shame: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529367065

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0:58.1	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Abigail Bergstrom.
1:02.8	She is a writer, editor, and agent, and she's worked in the publishing industry for over a decade.
1:07.9	She is an industry leader. She's someone that I look up to. She's an expert in all things books,
1:13.3	and she's edited some of the most prominent feminist voices we have today.
1:17.8	She was also nominated for Literary Agent of the Year in 2020, and she's helped build some of
1:22.8	the biggest book brands that you see today on the shelves. But today, we are here to talk about her
1:28.4	debut novel, What a Shame, a brilliantly fresh novel with blistering humour, reminiscent of
1:34.4	Emma Jane unsworth novels, and the raw vulnerability of I may destroy you. It's a book about female
1:40.3	shame, it's about friendship, grief, about trying to heal yourself, and about trying unorthodox
1:46.7	remedies to do so, to go deep into yourself, and it explores both the beauty and the pain of
1:52.2	trying to figure the hard stuff out. So it was such a treat to talk to Abby, and here is the episode.
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