Guest Post: Sally Jenkins – From Short Stories to Novels

This might interest the writers among you – Helen invited me on to her blog to talk about (& give some tips!) on how I combined a series of short stories together to create the novel that became Little Museum of Hope.

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I’m delighted to welcome my writing buddy, Sally Jenkins, onto the blog today!

She’s got a new novel out – (congratulations!), ‘Little Museum of Hope‘ which started life as a series of short stories and in her guest post below, she explains how that came about and also gives some tips, in case you’re tempted to try something similar yourself.

I’ve not read it yet – although I have read some of the short stories involved – but I’ve just downloaded the audiobook and I shall be listening to it in the car as I zoom around and I’m looking forward to it.

Over to Sally…!

From Short Story to Novel – by Sally Jenkins

The leap from short story to novel writing is huge and it’s something that I, like many writers, struggled with. One technique that worked for me was turning a series of linked short…

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  1. Shirley Stow's avatar

    #1 by Shirley Stow on June 1, 2023 - 9:16 am

    Very interesting and informative reading, Sally. Hope people are
    encourageda to read the book when it comes out. You have really inspired
    my curiosity now you’ve told us how it was concieved!

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