An interview with novelist Fiona Mountain

Alternative Stories and Fake Realities

Season: 4 Episode: 11

Published on May 9th at 4:00am

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/FionaMountain

And 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/

Fiona mentions folk singer and writer Sam Lee during the podcast.  You can find out more about Sam, his music and his latest book all about the nightingale by visiting his website here   https://samleesong.co.uk/

  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

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Coming soon we’ll have poetry from Gregory Leadbetter and drama from Anna Chorlton and Emily Inkpen.