Miscellaneous
In this edition we chat with historical novelist Fiona Mountain about her forthcoming novel and audio drama “The Keeper of Songs”. We include excerpts from the audio drama of and from some of her other novels and talk about the role of music in inspiring Fiona, her historical research and the effects of the pandemic on her creativity. This edition features excerpts from the forthcoming audio drama of The Keeper of Songs starring Amy Forrest and Keeley Lane and adapted from her novel of the same name by Fiona Mountain. It features the track “Henry and Clara” by Bella Hardy which is reproduced with Bella’s permission. The audio drama is produced by Nicholas John with Audio edit, mix and mastering: David Pickering Pick at ffg media www.ffgmedia.co.uk You can find out more about Fiona Mountain and order her books by visiting her website https://www.fionamountain.com/ To join Fiona’s mailing list to be informed when pre-order for The Keeper of Songs opens please click the link at the foot of the website home page. If you would like to purchase copies of Fiona’s novels you can visit her Amazon page here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiona-Mountain/e/B001HMN6QU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4&qid=1568592964&sr=1-4-catcorr You can follow Fiona on social media via twitter here https://twitter.com/FionaMountainAnd on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/fionamountainwriter/ To find out more about Bella Hardy and to purchase copies of her albums you can visit her website here https://www.bellahardy.com/ If you would like to book a place on our Introduction to Writing for Audio Drama Workshop on 17th May you can do so via our Eventbrite page here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introduction-to-writing-for-audio-drama-with-alternative-stories-tickets-148761496641 Subscribe to Alternative Stories in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your feed the moment they are released and to access our full archive of audio drama poetry and fiction podcasts. Follow us on social media to find out what we’re up to and to get news on forthcoming podcasts via twitter here https://twitter.com/StoriesAltAnd Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/You can contact us via email office@alternativestories.com Coming soon we’ll have poetry from Gregory Leadbetter and drama from Anna Chorlton and Emily Inkpen.