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Jo Gatford is a writer from Brighton who wants to live on your bookshelf. Since winning a publishing contract for her debut novel ‘White Lies’, Jo has won awards for short her short stories and has begun working on a second novel. Feeling a lack of accessible writing groups, Jo joined forces with fellow writer and Brighton writing retreat founder Sarah Lewis, to create Writers’ HQ, providing the writing retreats and courses it turns out others need too. We hit: self belief (even if it’s just enough to learn how to improve), thickening your skin through short and flash fiction working and submissions, the guilt people feel about enabling themselves to do something creative, fostering people’s excitement to write, and the teacher who took the time to help a young Jo go through her Star Wars-inspired novel. ‘WHITE LIES’ BY JO GATFORD http://www.jogatford.com/stockists/ JO’S RECOMMENDATIONS Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) https://www.alcs.co.uk/ FOLLOW JO Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmgatford Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jogatfordauthor Website: http://www.jogatford.com WRITERS’ HQ Website: http://www.writershq.co.uk Free courses here: https://writershq.co.uk/free-writing-courses/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/writershq Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/writers_hq Insta: https://www.instagram.com/writershq/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/writers-hq-ltd/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com