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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?

10. What can readers expect from your books in the future?

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