Lucy Gough has come to writing via her career as a stylist and art director. From working in house at magazines, to freelance art direction with John Lewis and Marks and Spencer, Lucy took a leap of faith in lockdown, when all her work disappeared, and wrote a course on Interiors Styling. That creative risk changed everything fo her. In this episode we talk about what the journey looked like and the practical and creative challenges of writing an illustrated book.

Links

The Home Style Handbook - Lucy Gough

Lucy Gough's Online Interior Styling Courses - course.lucygoughstylist.com

Lucy Gough on Instagram @style_by_lucy

Home Matters - Penny Wincer

Penny's Book Proposal Group Program - pennywincerwrites.com

Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com

Alice Vincent is a writer and broadcaster, and the author of Rootbound: Rewilding a life and Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival, both of which were longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. In this conversation we talk about how books begin and evolve for Alice, how she structures her time between columns, book writing and her newsletter and finding home in a balcony garden.

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Why Women Grow - Alice Vincent

Rootbound - Alice Vincent

Hark - Alice Vincent (pre-order)

Savour Newsletter - savour.substack.com

Home Matters - Penny Wincer

Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com

The next Book Proposal Group Program begins Oct 1st. You can book your place at pennywincerwrites.com

You can find all the books from Series 9 of Not To Busy To Write at Bookshop.org

Sunday Times bestselling author Clover Stroud's latest book The Giant in the Skyline begins with a difficult decision about whether to uproot her family from their home in Oxfordshire in order to keep the family together, and leads to a pilgrimage of discovery about what it means to feel at home and belong. We talk about grief's affect on our feelings of belonging, how our experience of mothering is affected by our immediate environment and how her life has changed (and not changed) since her family's move from rural Oxfordshire to the suburbs of Washington DC.

The next Non-Fiction Book Proposal Group Program begins Oct 1st. Visit pennywincerwrites.com/bookproposalgroup to grab your place. You'll also find information there for the Grant Place for writers on a low income.

Links

The Giant in the Skyline - Clover Stroud

The Wild Other - Clover Stroud

Home Matters - Penny Wincer

Clover Stroud on Substack - cloverstroud.substack.com

Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com

Non-Fiction Book Proposal Program - pennywincerwrites.com/bookproposalgroup