nothing in the rulebook
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Category: Interviews
The best talk to the best about the best.
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Nothing in the Rulebook caught up with self-described “funny-sad” author, Dan Brotzel, to discuss writing, maintaining your creativity under lockdown, and how to be funny
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Six years on from our last ‘creatives in profile’ interview, NITRB caught up with Tim Leach following the launch of his latest novel, ‘A Winter War’
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Last week, Tecola Smith posted her book of poetry to Oprah Winfrey. ‘I’ve paid for it to be signed for,’ she says, ‘so someone’s going to get it.’ Her poetry collection, She’s My Poetic Philosophy, is based on Tecola’s experiences as a Wellbeing Mentor at a university in Birmingham. They tell the stories of the young women…
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Annie Garthwaite waited thirty years to write a novel about Cecily Neville. She’s always been a writer, but a writer within the world of business. She’s worked for multinational corporations, set up her own communications company, sustained a successful career. But, throughout it all, she’s had one eye on Cecily. And Cecily’s had an eye…
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Five years ago, Pam Petro was visiting her mother in a nursing home in Connecticut. She’d arranged to meet her mother’s caregiving team for a meeting, but she was early, so she went for a walk. It was a walk she’d done before, around a pond in the grounds, but as she set off, she…
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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle discovers a film set in the yard outside her flat. She talks to ‘Myrlan’ co-creators Dale Raven and Cieran Ryan.
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When my friend introduced me to Anna Jefferson over email, she described her as ‘officially the funniest person I know.’ It’s a weighty title but, with two popular comic novels – Winging It and Nailing It – delighting readers all over the world, Jefferson has the strength and the skill to bear it, flex, and crown herself with it. …
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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle talks to writer and director Amy Brandis about making her directorial debut ‘Screw the Pooch’ in lockdown.
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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle interviews writer April Roach about ‘We Paint With Our Eyes Open’ – her short story published in The Literary Platform’s ‘The Tilt’
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Author Ruby Cowling catches up with Charlie Hill as he launches his latest book, ‘I don’t want to go to the Taj Mahal’
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