33 episodes
In Our Own Words Alice Ashcroft
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Alice Ashcroft discusses songwriting and writing techniques used by a range of musicians and authors.
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Sophie Cousens - Meet cutes and location inspired writing.
In this episode I chat to Sophie Cousens, author of the New York Times bestseller This Time Next Year, and brand new novel Just Haven't Met You Yet. After loving her first book, and falling even more in love with her writing after her second, in this episode we chat about meet cutes, location inspired writing and how to write characters readers will fall in love with.
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Bee (@frombeewithlove) - Creative storytelling through photos and video.
Telling stories through photos and editing is an art form all on it's own. In this episode, Bee (@frombewithlove) and Alice talk about how an idea becomes a story, and how this can be expressed visually.
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Emily Henry - Writing romance, strong female characters and Brooklyn 99.
In this episode I chat to New York Times Best-Selling author Emily Henry, about her book You and Me on Vacation (or The People We Meet on Vacation). After seeing this book everywhere on BookTok, I read it several months ago and instantly fell in love with Emily's writing. In this episode we chat about strong female characters, fan-girl over Brooklyn 99, and general talk about our united love for words and storytelling.
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Lorraine Brown - Writing romance and independence.
Series 5 of In Our Own Words begins with a chat with the wonderful author, Lorraine Brown author of Uncoupling (or to my American listeners - The Paris Connection). In this episode we chat about inspiration, romance, and independence. Lorainne is a brilliant writer, and I really recommend her writing and cannot wait to read her next book.
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Shan and Sienna (All Things Bookish Podcast) - From bookstagram to podcasting, how did we get here?
In this season finale, bookstagrammers turned podcasters; Alice, Sienna and Shan, share their stories surrounding their podcasts, their Instagram accounts and awkward encounters interviewing authors.
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Joe Knowles (VALA) - From a high school band to independent solo careers, this is two friends catching up in a public forum.
Songwriters Alice Ashcroft and Joe Knowles grew up together, and have written many songs over the years - some terrible, and some rather moving. In this episode they discuss their musical journey, Joe's band VALA's latest single, and Graham Norton.
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