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Writes4Women📺 Watch the Ep: Your Friend and Mine: Jessica DettmannVIDEO CONTENT BEGINS AT 6 MINSThis week on Writes4Women, guest host Michelle Barraclough sits down with bestselling author and fellow podcaster Jessica Dettmann to chat about her brand new novel Your Friend and Mine. From ghost letters and dead best friends to the joy of researching in stylish trench coats, this conversation is full of warmth, humour, and beautifully honest insights into the writing life.Michelle and Jess explore:* The power of midlife reinvention and detoured dreams* How a few ghost seats in a London theatre helped shape the plot2025-07-1039 min
Writes4WomenYour Friend and Mine: Jessica DettmannThis week on Writes4Women, guest host Michelle Barraclough sits down with bestselling author and fellow podcaster Jessica Dettmann to chat about her brand new novel Your Friend and Mine. From ghost letters and dead best friends to the joy of researching in stylish trench coats, this conversation is full of warmth, humour, and beautifully honest insights into the writing life.Michelle and Jess explore:The power of midlife reinvention and detoured dreamsHow a few ghost seats in a London theatre helped shape the plotResearch trips, pop culture references...2025-07-0340 min
Writer's Book Club PodcastJessica DettmannIn this episode, Jessica Dettmann and I talked about the writing process behind her novel This Has Been Absolutely Lovely. Jessica talks about what inspired her characters and how she uses voice to differentiate between them, how she writes a scene, her editorial process and the importance of reading your manuscript out loud, the importance of setting and how she ditched a prologue and wove the backstory into the main narrative.You’ll find links to buy both paperback and ebook versions of This Has Been Absolutely Lovely here.ABOUT JESSICAJessica Dettmann is...2021-11-0255 min