Mark Ballett: Write A Novel

Follow me as I write my third novel during 2023 and probably beyond. The Falmouth Son was my first novel, 2018. The second, Last Summer Night, was published in September 2021.

I will make regular posts of the process for writing a novel that I have evolved over the past few years, after trying more haphazardly for decades. I thought this might be a good idea as I have found that there is a lot more to writing a novel than you might think before you start and then it is easy to be put off by the scale and complexity of the task.

'Just finished Last Summer Night.'  I laughed out loud (for quite a while) just before the end - I didn't see that coming! Loved the humour and the seriousness combined. You have a special gift for story telling and I am sure there are layers I have missed on first reading...I am looking forward to reading it again. I'm so intrigued by the sound of your next book.'  Clare May 2023

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