🎵On The First Day of Christmas...

The writing advice Priscilla Morris gave to me

Merry Christmas! I hope you are enjoying your day wherever you are and whoever you are with.

Welcome to the first day of my series: Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice. Each day over the next twelve days a bestselling author will share with you the best writing advice they have to impart. If you want to catch up with the incredible line up I have for you this year, you can find it here:

All of these authors have penned these writing craft essays exclusively for White Ink, so which mystery author do I have for you on the first day of Christmas?

It’s Priscilla Morris. Priscilla is a British author and teacher of creative writing who divides her time between Ireland and Spain. She wrote Black Butterflies to understand the war that devastated her Bosnian mother’s hometown in Sarajevo from 1992-1996.

Priscilla’s debut novel, Black Butterflies, was published in 2022 and was shortlisted for several major prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Ondaatje Prize, and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Black Butterflies was selected by the New York Times as one of the best historical novels of the year in 2023 and was chosen as a BBC Radio Four Book at Bedtime.

And here is her Christmas message to you…