Bella Obsorne, author of 'The Promise of Summer' - Romantic writer talks about how characters meet genre, about busy years, and NaNoWriMo
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
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🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Bella Osborne has had a busy year. In the last 3 months, she's had 2 different books out with 2 different publishers.
'The Promise of Summer' is a romance novel with Avon. 'The Library' is a bookclub read with Aria. We try to talk about both of those, but it's mainly about the former.
All in, Bella has published 9 books. 'The Promise of Summer' is about Ruby and Curtis, trying to reunite a engagement ring with its owner, and find love along the way. We talk about how these two characters wouldn't go away, so she ahd to tell a part of their story, and leave them on a bench waiting for her to come back again.
You can hear why her family hates NaNoWriMo, about her post-it note obsession, why her work day revolves around cats, and about the best types of tea.
You can get a copy of 'The Promise of Summer' here - https://amzn.to/2Yh1dep and 'The Library' here - https://amzn.to/39TN8pI
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to writers' routine. This week we're chatting to Bella Osborne. She writes |
| 0:13.5 | book club and romantic fiction. You can hear what it's like writing many different types of |
| 0:19.7 | story throughout the day because different publishers |
| 0:22.3 | want different things. Also, she tries to take us through the writing routine of a year. |
| 0:28.1 | There's a lot going on, try and keep track of that. And you can hear what she does when |
| 0:32.7 | characters keep hanging around. I wrote down a bit about them and this sort of, this scene, |
| 0:37.4 | their first scene together that I pictured and Jotty them and this sort of this scene, their first |
| 0:37.8 | scene together that I pictured and jotted and I put it to one side, right, great, that's okay, |
| 0:42.3 | I've shelved it, I can go back and I can finish what I'm doing, but they wouldn't go away. |
| 0:46.3 | And at one point, I had to go, right, I'm just going to sit down and I wrote another piece |
| 0:50.8 | about them and I left them having fish and chips on a bench by the seaside. |
| 0:55.4 | I was right, now you need to sit there, and I will come back to you, but I've got to finish this. |
| 1:00.6 | And yeah, it's just sometimes characters are just like that, and they're just so fully formed, |
| 1:05.6 | and this pair really were. |
| 1:07.2 | There is more on the way with Bella Osborne in this week's writer's routine. |
| 1:25.6 | Yes, welcome along. It's writer's routine where we speak to all manner of different authors in different genres with different styles, |
| 1:28.0 | using different methods to find out how they plan their day and their ideas to get the story |
| 1:33.1 | done. My name's Dan Simpson. I hope you've had a good couple of weeks. Thank you for bearing |
| 1:37.8 | with me through the break. This week on the show, we're joined by Bella Osborne. She's got a lot |
| 1:43.1 | going on. Her eighth and ninth book |
| 1:45.6 | are out, both within the space of a few months. The Promise of Summer was out back in July with Avon. |
| 1:53.1 | That's why this interview was set up. And then a few months later, just at the start of this month, |
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