...to the blog this week. Hello Pam and thanks for making time to be here today, I know how very busy you are. Tell me, what is your current release?
PG My current
release “To Be Human is an Honour” is available on Kindle. It charts my
spiritual and physical journey around the world. Experiencing many different cultures and people, I share their
wisdom and understanding about our beautiful planet and our place upon it.
AW What first got you into writing and why?
PG I wrote my first novel when I was 9 but never
finished it. It was an Enid Blyton
style magical story. I’ve always written
informally; letters home to my parents during my travels and poems to express
feelings and emotions. Then in recent
years, I kept being prompted in all sorts of ways to write more formally, so I
decided to start writing books.
Since the autobiography, I have now
started a series of children’s novels based in the Mesolithic Period of Stone
Age Britain. I think we can learn so
much from history. Living in total
harmony with their environment for 2000 years, they left hardly any trace of
themselves. The first novel is
completed and I am awaiting responses from publishers.
AW You write Historical YA novels and non-fiction. Is it
all imagination or do you also undertake research?
PG Obviously I didn’t
need research for my autobiography, but I did double-check facts with people
and sought permission from them. For
the children’s novels, I did extensive research, which I found absolutely
fascinating.
AW And what about other types of writing? Have you ever
dabbled with short stories, for instance, or other genres?
PG I belong to a
writing group in Todmorden and every couple of weeks we are set a writing
challenge. Initially, I did mainly poems
but I’ve started branching out into short stories as well, which is fun. I’ve just written a short story with a
positive view for the future: something I think we all need at the moment!
AW Famous authors, such as Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas, had a
special space for writing. Do you have a writing ‘shed’ of your
own?
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| Difficult not to be inspired by a scene like this! |
PG I have a small room
upstairs which is an office style space.
I find it easiest to write in there, however, for my inspiration, I
often walk the dog to trigger ideas.
The quiet space surrounded
by nature really helps to clear my head and clarify ideas.
AW Finally, if you had a whole afternoon to yourself and could
choose to spend it with any one individual, living or dead or a character from
a book, who would it be, and what would you want to discuss?
PG I’d love to
spend the afternoon with Desmond Tutu.
I would like to discuss how he manages to find so much joy in everything
around him and I’d like to giggle and laugh with him. I love his wisdom and
laughter.
about the author... A happy
childhood full of love and books led Pam Golden to study teaching. Once she had finished her education, she
found her wings and flew. After many
adventures around the world, she finally met her husband and they settled down
in Yorkshire, where their son was born.
Her philosophy is simple; that love, in the broadest meaning of the
word, is the answer. She believes that
everything in life happens for a reason. Pam has
always had a vivid imagination and started writing her first children’s book
when she was nine years old. She never finished it but has finally realised her
dream in the completion of a children’s novel many years later.
about the book...An
energising glimpse of a young woman’s life through a wide variety of
experiences; starting in 1978, she sweeps you up and carries you with her. Sharing her emotions, her understanding of
the world and her spirituality, she travels both physically and metaphorically
around the globe. With her sympathetic approach to the people she meets,
combined with humour, sadness, wisdom, love and occasionally bizarre
happenings; you will become drawn into her world of trust and belief that
everything happens for a reason, helping to create a beautiful pattern of life.
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