Hot, Selfish, and Coming to Your City!

It is such a joy to be back on Substack, pausing my account felt very meta in that at the time I was writing a lot about the sacrifices we need to make to finish writing a book - the things we have to give up and miss out on to make the time. One of those things for me was building this community and it felt so counter-intuitive to walk away from something that was growing and that I was enjoying so much.

But writing a novel is a little like falling in love with someone who keeps breaking your heart – it’s exhilarating, all-consuming but also maddening, exhausting and occasionally soul-crushing. But I did it.

SELFISH GIRLS

One of the central reasons for starting this newsletter was to give more people access to the publishing industry and how it really ticks, and to help motivate and encourage people with their own writing, whether your goal is creative health or finishing your own novel, and that’s something I’m going to be talking about a lot on my book tour next week.

So if you've been waiting for a sign to take your writing seriously – this is it.
I’ll be sharing everything I’ve learned (the messy, unfiltered truth about how books really get made) and I’d love to see you there. Come for the book, stay for the honesty – and leave with your creative fuse reignited.

TOUR DATES

MANCHESTER - CLICK HERE and join me 9TH JULY for an evening of conversation about how to finish a novel, intergenerational trauma and difficult mother-daughter relationships where I’ll be interviewed by Monika Radojevic, author of ‘A Beautiful Lack of Consequence’

LONDON - CLICK HERE and join me 10TH JULY for an evening of laughter, literary conversation and honest chaos with the incredible comedian, Stevie Martin.

CARDIFF - CLICK HERE and join me 16TH JULY for an evening of unfiltered conversation about getting published, dysfunctional families and the relationships between sisters where I’ll be interviewed by Beth McColl, author of ‘How to Come Alive Again’.

People have said some very nice things about the book

And a recent review in Harper’s BAZZAR:

'A psychologically charged novel, Selfish Girls is at once a suspenseful thriller and a subtle portrait of domestic interactions, with a healthy dose of humour and hope offsetting its darker moments'

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE

Abigail xxx