Bios
Short: Emily Benet is a
author, journalist and award-winning blogger who writes upbeat contemporary
women's fiction.
Medium:
Emily
Benet is an author, journalist and award-winning blogger. Her writing career kick-started
with her blog-to-book success, Shop Girl
Diaries. She followed it up with online hit, Spray Painted Bananas. The quirky rom-com was later published by
Harper Collins along with social media comedy, #PleaseRetweet. The Hen Party
is her latest novel and is set in Mallorca where she lives.
Long: Emily Benet is
an author, journalist and award-winning blogger. Her writing career kick-started
with her blog-to-book success, Shop Girl
Diaries. She followed it up with online hit, Spray Painted Bananas. The quirky rom-com was later published by
Harper Collins along with social media comedy, #PleaseRetweet. London-born but half Spanish, she recently left the
metropolis behind for a more outdoor lifestyle in sunny Mallorca. The Hen Party is set on the island and
captures Benet's love of upbeat contemporary women's fiction with multiple
protagonists, twists and turns, comedy and romance. Alongside her fiction, she
writes on an array of topics for abcMallorca magazine.
Interview Topics
- How Writing Online Influenced My Writing Career
- Life Change: How moving to Mallorca brought new writing opportunities and inspired my new novel The Hen Party
- Writing What You Know: from blogger to author of contemporary women's fiction
- The Hybrid Author Experience: Traditional vs Self-Publishing
Suggested Interview Questions
1. How did blogging kick-start your writing career?
2. Why did you serialise an entire novel online and
what was the outcome?
3. What's your latest novel, The Hen Party, all about?
4. What inspired The
Hen Party?
5. Why did you set the novel in Mallorca?
6. How does being from two cultures, British and
Spanish, influence your writing?
7. What authors have
influenced you the most?
8. Apart from fiction, what do you write?
9. Are you working on a new novel?
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