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In this series, you’ll find interviews with authors, publishing professionals and wider industry contacts about writing and publishing.
In this episode, we spoke to author Heleen Kist about her publishing journey, writing process, and tips she has learned from her time in the industry.
Heleen Kist is a Dutch businesswoman who lived all over the world while growing up and for her career. Then she fell in love with a Scotsman and his country, and now writes about its (sometimes scary) people from her garden office in Glasgow. She was awarded a Spotlight as ‘up and coming author’ at Bloody Scotland 2018 for her debut ‘IN SERVITUDE’. It was shortlisted for The Selfies 2019 awarded at London Book Fair and won a silver medal at the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2019 in the USA. ‘STAY MAD, SWEETHEART’ received third prize in the inaugural Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award 2020 and a silver medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2020. Heleen has recently published her novel 'WHAT I HID FROM YOU', a standalone suspense novel and there are more completed and in the works. Watch this space.
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