by Nia Beynon | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Years ago, I went hiking in the Dolomite Mountains (Italian Alps) with some other philosophy professors and a couple of their kids. I grew up at the foot of the Rockies in Montana, but I’d never been hiking in Europe. Boy, was I surprised when we reached the top and...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Creating a playlist for my novels has become something of a tradition now. If you haven’t listened to the Missing Pieces and Nobody’s Wife playlists, you’re missing out! This time, I had a headstart because I included some songs in the book, on the playlists Jess’s...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Embarking on a novel about a woman with breast cancer when I’d just finished being treated for breast cancer was a risky move. I hoped it would be cathartic, and it was, on the whole. But it also dredged a lot of stuff up. It reminded me that this could have gone a...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader, When I was thirty-five, and five months pregnant with my second child, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. No one expects to have to face cancer at that age; no one expects their body to turn on them just when they are busy creating new life. I waited,...
by jenna | Oct 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Research Trip to Athens ✈️🇬🇷 One of my favourite things about writing is research I get to do in person, and when I decided to set a winter book in Greece obviously, I had to experience it for myself! Cue a winter trip to Greece’s capital, Athens, the location for...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
‘Libraries are our cultural lifeblood. Without them authors wouldn’t have been inspired – or in many cases been given shelter as children to lose themselves in a book; readers couldn’t discover new worlds and new writers in a safe and free...
