Lucy atkins

I have tons going on at http://blenheimpalaceliteraryfestival.com  this year.

I’ll be running two sessions with Fanny Blake www.fannyblake.co.uk a successful novelist (her most recent novel is called With A Friend Like You), and Woman & Home books editor, who also used to be editorial director of Viking Penguin. In other words, she knows what she is talking about.  On Saturday 27th September at 10.30am Fanny and I are running a writer’s workshop about how to create tension (‘It’s a Bit Tense..’ ) On Sunday 28th September at 10.30am we’re also running a workshop for anyone who wants to write and be published ‘Have You Got a Book in You?’

I’m also really looking forward to chairing a Book Club event with Sadie Jones, a superb writer, who’ll be chatting with us about her most recent novel Fallout, on Saturday 27th September at 4pm. Sadie will be just back from watching her debut novel The Outcast being filmed for a BBC television drama so I’m hoping she’ll talk a bit about that too.

And finally, it’s Cocktails With Mr Selfridge. This event – on Sunday 28th September at 12.30pm  – should be a lot of fun. We’ll have Mr Selfridge screen writer Kate Brooke talking about what it’s like to create such a drama, as well as Trystan Gravelle who plays Victor, and Amy Morgan who plays Grace from accessories, giving us a peek behind the scenes. And we’ll also have a big cocktail. By that time, I’m guessing I’ll be needing one quite badly.