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From the Britwriters

This is the new and currently slightly bare blog of a group of British writers. All of us are published mainly in the USA, so our daily lives are lived in two countries, with a foot in both cultures. Most of our peers and most of our readers are American, and this makes life fascinating, rewarding and occasionally perplexing. We banded together just in order to have friends and colleagues who understood what it was like. But once we did, we thought ‘this is an interesting position we find ourselves in. Why not blog about it?’ Hence the Britwriters blog.

This will be – we hope – an interesting blog to match. We’re aiming to talk about writing – our own personal novels, our experience in the hectic world of publishing and the art of writing itself. But we’ll also be posting about British and American similarities and differences. We’ll have tips on how – if you’re an American writer – you can make a novel set in Britain sound authentic, whether that’s for contemporary or historical novels. We may even hold question and answer sessions I’m sure there will be at least one post on the fraught subject of spelling! And we’ll probably be posting about where we went and what we saw at the weekends, because there’s a lot of local colour out there to explore, and you never know what might be your latest inspiration.