This episode's guest is Kate Mildenhall. Her debut novel, Skylarking, is based on the true story of Kate and Harriet, best friends growing up on a remote Australian cape in the 1880s, and the tragic event that befalls them. She is the co-host of The First Time podcast, a podcast about the first time you publish a book.

We discuss a variety of subjects including finding ourselves in that tricky stage that is mid-book-project, her article 'Finding Home' in the recent edition of The Victorian Writer about self-doubt and how to come back to some kind of positive, calm mindset, how to manage expectations, keeping a journal about the writing process, how hard it is not to think about some of the logistical things about publishing such as the market, potential audience etc while we write. And much more.

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