🎵On The Fifth Day of Christmas
The writing advice Sarah Winman gave to me
Here we are on the fifth day of Christmas. I hope you’ve been enjoying some rest during this lull but with just a few days until the new year it’s time to turn our attention to our resolutions for 2025, and I hope this series is helping you do that. Do let me know in the comments.
Yesterday we heard from novelist and screenwriter,
and you can catch up with that post here:
So which bestselling author do I have for you on the fifth day of Christmas?
It’s Sarah Winman.
Sarah is an author and actress. Her debut novel, When God Was a Rabbit, became an international bestseller. Her second novel, A Year of Marvellous Ways was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third novel, Tin Man, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize.
Her most recent novel, Still Life, was published in 2021 to critical acclaim and has been translated into at least fourteen languages. Another Sunday Times bestseller, Still Life has gone on to sell more than half a million English language copies and was the winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick, and Guardian Book of the Year among other accolades.
Sarah is simply brilliant and I am so thrilled that she agreed to share what inspires her own writing with White Ink readers and so let’s see what advice she has to impart: