Devon J Hall

She is the author of Uncomfortable: Short Unedited Essays From The Loud Mouth Brown Girl. It’s a collection of essays written from the perspective of a Canadian Black woman. 

While the essays contain parts of her story, at the core the book is about how she see the world and why she believes her view of the world matters.

Devon’s dream has only ever been to be an author and despite the distractions life threw at her she knew, in her core, that she was always going to be an author.

She takes pride in how raw and rough her writing is. It’s not supposed to be comfortable or easy to read. It’s supposed to make you question the way you see the world and push against how you believe others see the world. 

It’s her in a nutshell, says Devon, and she’s excited to share her journey with you.

Uncomfortable

Uncomfortable reminds you that your life matters, regardless of your skin colour, be even more so if you are a Black woman, man or child because you have been told, for hundreds of years, that your life doesn’t matter. 

For too long, Black children have been told, by those who love them, that they can be anything they want. Simultaneously, they’ve been told they’re not allowed to dream because of the colour of their skin.

Latasha Jimerson said it is like an emotional slap to the face. Kim Rhodes said it was like the exhibits of dead bodies without skin, only for emotions. Descriptions that Devon relishes and hope you will resonate with too.

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Episode Transcript

Emma (00:00):

Well, Devon, thank you so much for joining me today. I’m really delighted to have you here. I wonder if we could just start with you telling us a little bit about yourself? Cause I know that you’ve got quite a few strings to your bow. You’ve got a website that you run as well. So you’re not, you’re not just a writer, but you also run the Loud Mouth Brown Girl website as well.

Devon J Hall (00:23):

Loud Mouth Brown girls started because I was on a, I was volunteering at CJSF radio here in Canada and I, they sent me on a work trip and it was my first adult trip and I was really excited to go and I got there and everybody around me was drinking and I don’t drink. And so it was very difficult to kind of make some real connections with people, with folks. And there was a lot of racism in the town that we were in and I had never, like somebody actually came up to me and said, you’re black. I was like, yeah, I know this is not news to me. And so there’s a lot of stuff like that, where it was just over, like somebody broke into my room and there was all kinds of stressors and triggers. And then on my way home, I had a panic attack and I got arrested for having the panic attack and forced to go to the hospital and had to deal with doctors and take a bus home.

Devon J Hall (01:22):

And I came home and I was just angry and I thought the cop called me a loud mouth Brown B. And I remember telling him I was going to make that the most famous brand in the world. And I was so I was so galvanized that I just started writing about everything that had happened on the trip and everything that I had been through. And the more I started writing, the more everything started coming out, the abuses from when I was a child and dealing with an abusive priest and white supremacy and on and on and on. And I realized very quickly that I didn’t just want it to be an anti-rape site. I wanted it to be something that actually helps people and where they could come to it and have it be a resource. And so it’s definitely in the last two years, evolved from just being a blog about my experience to my blog, about my experience as a black woman, living in a country that is just starting to understand that we actually do have a race problem. And that has a huge effect on our mental health as

Emma (02:29):

When I was looking on the website, you are inviting other people to come in. I don’t know if it’s predominantly women, but you’re, you’re looking for submissions from other writers. Is that correct?

Devon J Hall (02:40):

Yes. We’re looking for submissions from other Brown girls and I use the term Brown girl very loosely. If you have Brown hair and you are a loud mouth and you don’t care what people think about you, we want you to submit your work. We want it to be a place where other Brown girls can come and share their experience and their story. And it was always meant to be that it was always meant to be a collective. So now we’re looking for people to come and share about their experiences trying to be a writer or what their experiences are with politics, or maybe it’s about sexual abuse. Maybe it’s about marijuana use, whatever it may be, as long as it’s from your perspective and your voice.

Emma (03:23):

Fantastic. Well, I’ll definitely put a link to that in the show notes for if anyone’s interested in putting in a submission now you’ve, you’ve touched on it before that you’ve experienced a lot of abuse in your life. And I think that’s one of the reasons that you wrote your book called uncomfortable, short unedited essays from the loud mouth Brown girl. And so I just, because it’s a series of essays, I wasn’t sure how you would describe it. Do you feel about it that it is a memoir?

Devon J Hall (03:55):

Oh, I don’t know if it’s a memoir because I don’t go into detail into detail about my abuse stories. And I specifically don’t do that because I don’t want to contribute to what I call trauma porn. But it is definitely about some of the lessons that I learned and the experiences that I’ve had that have brought me to be where I am today. So I stick with just, it’s a book of essays because that’s sort of what fit.

Emma (04:21):

Okay. Okay. So but based based on your life, so maybe some kind of be sort of an creative non-fiction like that’s better. That’s better. So when we’ve spoken before, before we started recording, you mentioned that these stories just sort of came pouring out of you. This was just something that had to be written. And so how did you get started with your writing?

Devon J Hall (04:49):

When I got home from having the panic attack, I could feel another one coming and I knew I was going to have an emotional breakdown, show it to my friend. And I said, give me weed. And she said, you don’t smoke weed. And I said, Nope, I don’t give me weed. And it was specifically because I knew that it was coming in. I needed something to balance me out to help. And I thought about seriously thought about drinking because I was at that point where I was like, I need something to dull the pain. And she said, this is not going to dull the pain. It’s going to force you to deal with it. And as it turns out, they really did. I had a long conversation with my mom. I said, this is what I had been through. And once I was able to say it out loud, there was about a three-day period where she went away and I stirred in my house and I looked around and I said, no, one’s home.

Devon J Hall (05:48):

And I started screaming and I started screaming about all the things that had happened. I mean, how unfair it was and how miserable I was and poor me and on and on it way. And then I heard a voice say, okay, now go write about it. And I sat down and I started writing and everything just came out and it was such a release of emotional baggage that I’d been holding on to. It was like, this is what I needed. This is people say that marijuana is the drug, but for me it’s the writing is the drug. That’s what I need every day. I don’t need marijuana every day anymore, but I do need to be writing every day. And so that’s kind of how it started. I don’t think that I would be writing. I think I’d still be painting. If I hadn’t, if I hadn’t started smoking pot and I don’t recommend it for everybody, it’s certainly not for people under the age of 18. And those with severe mental health issues. It’s just that, that’s what worked for me. It opened the flood Gates.

Emma (06:47):

I’m just trying to think, you know, for our listeners who might be going through something similar or have been through something similar, you know, difficult time in their life, and they’re wanting to write about it. Did you, at that time, when you started writing, did you have any idea of structure at that time or was it literally just an outpouring of whatever came into your mind? You put down on paper?

Devon J Hall (07:09):

I had a little bit of structure. I want to say that it was a complete outpouring. But it mostly, it was, it was, yeah, it was, there was a little bit of like, it has to be an essay format because this is what I’m comfortable writing. It has to be under a certain amount of words cause I don’t want to drone on and on and on. There’s only so much you can say about a specific topic before you start repeating yourself. So there was a little bit of structure, but for the most part, it was just write what you need to write today and see how you feel about it tomorrow. And the more that I wrote, the more I was like, okay, I don’t actually hate the essays I wrote yesterday. I’ll leave them for now. And then before I knew what I was publishing it, and I remember everyone was all excited for me and I was still sitting there going, I’m not quite sure how that happened.

Emma (08:01):

I love it. I really admire that. I think it’s a lot of people are very scared to press publish and we’ll procrastinate a lot and put up a lot of barriers against doing that, you know, for understandable fears. So I love that you kind of just decided, no, I’ve got to do this. This is a came from the hearts and I had to be pre-typed into the world. And and now you’re sharing your story with, or elements of your story with a lot of other people who will need to hear it. And so I really admire that. Thank you. And so when you sat down to write those essays, did you have an objective for each writing session? Was it perhaps write a certain number of words, you know, you’ve mentioned you didn’t want to go too long on each essay or do you find it better to have a set period of time or do you just kind of as the takes you, you just right. For as long

Devon J Hall (08:57):

I just write as amaze takes me, I would love to say that I’m structured and organized and that everything is where it needs to be in my house, but that’s just not the case. I thrive in chaos. When I sit down to write it’s it’s, there is a feeling that comes over you like, you know, this is, this is the one right now, I’m writing an essay about my journey with smoking weed and writing. And I just know that this is going to be in the book because this isn’t a story that I’ve told before and it just feels right. And that’s how, you know, it’s a gut instinct for you. It absolutely is.

Emma (09:36):

And so I was going to ask, you know, what, whether you plots or your pants, if you’re a plotter or a pantser, but it sounds to me like that you’re more of a pan stir that you just go with your guts and whatever comes on the page, you can move it after, after you’ve written it.

Devon J Hall (09:55):

Yeah, absolutely. And it’s, it’s, that’s what makes writing fun is that it’s a bit of an adventure because I never know what’s going to come out. I have a fictional blog that I’m working on as well, and I call it my it’s sort of like my writer’s workbook. This is where you can go to learn about the characters and the backstory. And the hope is that one day that I’ll actually write a book based on this fictional blog. But the idea is that it’s my way of actually plotting the storylines. And so I’m training myself how to be a plotter, but in my non-fiction writing, I’m definitely just like whatever comes in emotional and literal diarrhea of thoughts. And it’s, it’s a beautiful way of seeing how I change my format depending on whether I’m writing fiction or nonfiction.

Emma (10:47):

So I love the idea that you as a way to become a plotter, you’re actually blogging about your, your characters and their backstory. And so do you also are you putting in kind of plot points as well and seeing how people respond to those?

Devon J Hall (11:07):

Yeah. there’s like this whole society of women who rule the world in the shadows, they’re called Creo Hannah. There’s this part where it is. Cause all the blog posts are written from the character’s perspective. So one character, for instance, she’s about ready to become queen of this society. And so she has to go on this trip to all the other tribes and get their approval before she can ascend the throne. And so it’s neat because I’m sitting here and I’m like, that’s interesting. What if some of the characters aren’t happy that other characters are going on the trip and there’s Goya’s, which are outsiders and it’s very gypsy based. And so it’s really allowing me to stretch my muscles when it comes to fiction writing, because I’m starting to see that like this, as the story is unfolding, it’s just coming to a natural head and that’s really cool.

Emma (12:01):

Oh, that’s nice. You can feel that the kind of tension and everything building naturally. Yeah. I like that sounds like a great story. I love the kind of gypsy element, lots of room for sort of color and music and things like that. Lots of sort of texture.

Devon J Hall (12:17):

Yeah. That’s what I love about it. The most, my mom is actually gypsy, and so that’s where the story came from. It’s something I’ve always thought about. I’ve been working on it since I was a kid and now I’m like actually coming together. Wow.

Emma (12:33):

That’s interesting because you mentioned before that she’s from the UK, but no, she she’s in Canada, so she really has gone traveling and not just within Britain, but taking her gypsy, her gypsy need to travel a bit.

Devon J Hall (12:48):

Definitely gypsy. She’s got all the traits. Can’t sit still. She’s very vibrant, loves the colors and the shoes and the blame. Like she’s very, she won’t admit it because a lot of English people don’t want to talk about gypsies, but she’s very much got the gypsy spirit inside of her.

Emma (13:06):

Oh, good. She’s just held onto it. Good for her. Absolutely. now I did want to ask you a little bit about the structure of the story of the book and the different essays. And I wondered how you decided upon that when you were kind of looking at the different essays you had, did you, was there a narrative that you wanted to follow or perhaps there were different kind of topics that you wanted to divide it into. How did you go about organizing the structure of your book? I didn’t

Devon J Hall (13:40):

Absolutely no organizational structure whatsoever. I do with my second book, the one that I’m working on now, there’s definitely in the, you know, uncomfortable, there’s about five pages of helpline phone numbers. And so the second book kind of continues on where that ends and it starts with an essay about why I choose not to commit suicide and why I am choosing to fight with my fight for my life. And that was very intentional because I very much wanted to feel like these two books were connected. This book is going to be a lot more uplifting than the last book, I think, because it’s going to be a lot more about personal power. And so there’ll be a lot more organizational structure to this one. Then there was the last one, but for the first one,

Emma (14:29):

Sorry, I’m just going to ask what was, what would you say you’ve, you’ve said that the second book is more uplifting. It’s about being more empowered. What would you say was kind of the theme or then perhaps the underlying message of the first book of uncomfortable

Devon J Hall (14:45):

Chaos, absolute undilated chaos. And I say that not joking because I was in such a chaotic space when I wrote the book. Artists are like that when we are feeling emotionally unbalanced and we’re creating at the same time, we don’t necessarily know, especially like if you’re a painter or something who, somebody who doesn’t write does not create with words. It’s very abstract. And I think that uncomfortable is very abstract. There’s it kind of jumps all over the place and there’s different topics. It’s not about one specific theme which is kind of cool because most self-help books are, they have a theme and they have a structure, whereas uncomfortable is like, it’s the Devin Hall version of John Malcovich is mine.

Devon J Hall (15:46):

Kim Rhodes compared it to the the body moves exhibit, which is like the dead bodies without the skin. She was like, your book is the psychic equivalent of that. And I went, is that a good thing? She’s like, no, it’s amazing. And I love it. And she was wonderful about it, but I guess only a television demon Slayer could come up with such a comparison.

Emma (16:09):

So I’d like to move on to writers that have inspired you. It sounds like you’ve been writing for a little while now. And so what, what writers have inspired you? Not necessarily to, to write this book of essays, but just generally who have you read that you’ve enjoyed and you thought, yes, I can do that too.

Devon J Hall (16:35):

JD Robb or Nora Roberts is one of my favorite writers of all time. I think that she, she does in her nor Roberts. She writes a lot of trilogies and so everything is love and magic and how you need the power of three and all that kind of stuff. And then as JD Robb, she writes very scientific, very futuristic, very scifi kind of stuff. And so the two, the fact that she writes so differently into different genres and she’s successful at both equally has always made me go, like I could do that. I could, I could write in in more than one John or I don’t have to stick to just met more is I don’t have to stick to just fiction. I can do a little bit of both. Kim Harrison is my favorite of all time. I bow to the altar that is Kim Harrison.

Devon J Hall (17:30):

She writes a series of books and I, for the life of me, I can’t remember it right now, but there it’s about a demon Hunter and ferries and there’s demons and angels and two different kinds of worlds that she’s brought together into one. And she’s just funny and effervescent, I talked to her on Twitter all the time and I swear I feed her ego, but it’s worth it. Josh Weeden, I don’t know if you guys have Buffy out there, but Josh. Yeah, yeah. You wrote a line for angel and it goes live as if the world were what it should be to show what it can be. And the first time I heard those words, I like audibly gasped. And I was like, that’s, that’s what I want people to feel when they read my writing like that, that moment of, Oh my God, that is profound and beautiful and heartbreaking.

Devon J Hall (18:28):

And that whole scene was just, so it was everything that I wanted in a vampire show about a man who loves his son and wants to see his son succeed and be the best of humanity. And it was just like, that’s the kind of writer that I wanted to be. That was the moment that I knew I was going to be a writer because I had to, my goal is to make enough money to meet Josh Sweden and say, thank you, that’s it like, that’s it. I know he’s a white guy and I’m a black chick and we’re supposed to like hate each other or whatever. But when somebody makes you feel a moment of, Oh my God, like, I want to cry just thinking about that scene and all the people that, that came together to make that happen. I want that moment. I want to be standing on my own film set and be like, that’s my character just said that. And somebody is going to hear that and feel that. And yeah, those are my three favorites.

Emma (19:27):

Well that’s, and that’s quite a nice broad spectrum there, no Roberts who kind of writes about love and romance and positive things where all the way through to vampires and the, I love it all. Yeah. now a lot of beginner writers in particular, I think maybe this is something that we all struggle with, but when you’re starting out, it can really, really feel very intense. And it’s that idea of not being good enough. And I’m wondering at the beginning, or even now, perhaps do you ever worry about that? And if you do, you know, how do you find a way to either live with it or push it to one side, those kinds of feelings of insecurity that comparisonitis that we often get, that we’re not good enough to be writing the spirit. We’re not good enough. Or we’ll never be Harrison.

Devon J Hall (20:22):

I hate that mentality and I have divorced it. I think because I’m such a stubborn pain in the butt and because I’m English and Irish and Scottish and Jamaican, and I genuinely believe that because I’m like these cultures are some of the most stubborn cultures on the planet and they’re all a part of who I am. I used to say I was to drink because I’m English, Irish, Scottish, and Jamaican. And now I say I’m born to create, because I come from such amazing cultures that are filled with art and love and philosophy and romance. And I mean, like what’s more romantic than Scotland in the summer, nothing, nothing. And that’s where I come from. I come from those people, right. And my mom she’s, she lives in a wheelchair. And I remember once I won this contest for her, where she got to go pick out a pair of shoes.

Devon J Hall (21:21):

And I remember thinking like those are too high, she’ll never be able to walk in them. And she goes, they don’t have to walk in them. I just have to look pretty because that’s what makes me feel good. Writing makes me feel the way that she feels when she’s dressed up. Right. It makes me feel powerful and secure. And I know that I do it well because I’ve had people say to me, you’re part of my healing journey or your work has really helped me. But more than that, it’s helped me. And it sounds really selfish, but I don’t write for other people. I don’t write because I want to make people feel good about themselves. I write because I need to write to live. That’s how I exist. So the idea of being insecure about, excuse me, about my writing. It just doesn’t occur to me.

Devon J Hall (22:08):

Like it, I don’t care if Josh, we didn’t hate to my writing. He doesn’t have to like it. I like my rate. I’m proud of the content that I put out there because I know where it comes from. I know how much pain I’ve endured to get where I’m getting. So to anybody who sits there and goes, I’m not good enough, or nobody cares. There is somebody in the world that needs your story besides yourself. And I think that’s the thing that we forget. Our experiences are meant to be shared. They’re meant to be passed along to the next generation, the next group of people so that they can say, okay, well, Devin went through this. This is what she learned. That’s what I’m learning from what she’s learned. And you know what I mean? Like we’re supposed to be sharing information with each other to make it easier.

Devon J Hall (22:58):

So I feel like saying the days where I’m like, I’m not good enough, or I’m a hack, which I went through when I wrote uncomfortable. As soon as I published it, I was like, this is terrible. It’s never going to sell. Everyone’s going to hate it. I started crying. I like, I curled in a ball and I was like, I’m such a hack. I’m such a loser. And then three days later I sold 18 copies and I was like, okay, what would have happened if I hadn’t, if I hadn’t tried, I would’ve sold no copies. Right? It’s better to sell one than it is to sell nothing.

Emma (23:33):

I think that’s a really important message for people is that it’s, you’ve got to try, you’ve got to do it and see how it goes and not get to a point where you kick yourself and think, ah, I never even tried. What was, why didn’t I even try it’s because once you do it, it’s, I’m a really big believer that once you write that first draft, it can really change your life. And either you’re going to know that, okay, this isn’t for me, or you’re going to know, I love this writing. I’m passionate about this. It fulfills me in a, in a way that nothing else does. And then you will have the bug and you’ll carry on from there. But I do feel that one of the most important things is just to complete that first draft and give yourself that chance to make a decision from that.

Devon J Hall (24:16):

The thing that I’ve learned, I, for this new book, I started writing it the day after Chadha Bozeman died. And so for black people, that’s kind of like, I don’t want to say he’s like our black Jesus, but he’s pretty close. You know what I mean? Like he, he matters that much to people. And I read over what I was writing last night and I started to cry. And that was the moment where I realized like beyond anything else that I thought I could do this. When I read my own writing and I started to cry, I was like, I was born to be a writer. And I think people think that when you have those moments of, I can’t do this and I sock and it’s terrible and you start crying about it. I feel like people think that’s a bad thing. That’s a great thing because you’re releasing all of that negativity so that you can start making room for the idea that maybe you can do this. You just have to try, like you said,

Emma (25:15):

I love it. I love it. Again, kind of another one of the questions I was gonna ask you, but I think you’ve, you’ve sort of answered. It really is. I’m very much a believer that there is an audience for every story out there. And it sounds like that’s something you feel as well that we have stories to share. And it’s almost our duty to share them.

Devon J Hall (25:35):

It absolutely is. I feel like keeping your story to yourself when you’ve experienced trauma and we’ve all experienced trauma. It, the degree of trauma doesn’t matter. Every human on earth has experienced. Some kind of drama is in a, in a way, very selfish because there is somebody out there that needs to hear your story. Whether it’s the 14 year old kid down the street or the African girl on the other side of the planet, wondering if she’s ever gonna make it as a writer, there’s somebody else there that needs your story. And I don’t think we have the right to keep them to ourselves. I think it’s important that we share them because that’s how this is. That’s how society grows. That’s how we evolve is through the sharing of stories.

Emma (26:18):

Yeah, no, that’s a really lovely way of reframing that. It’s it’s not that you’re being self-indulgent to tell your story is that you’re helping somebody else by telling your story. Absolutely. So you’ve you’ve mentioned that you’re writing another book and so this one is going to be a more uplifting read. You’ve said how far are you along with it now? How’s it coming

Devon J Hall (26:41):

Along? I started, so it’s brand new. It’s brand new. I don’t want to say too much about it, so I don’t know what to say about it yet because it hasn’t, it hasn’t unfolded yet. I haven’t figured out what the story is behind the stories yet. Marriage organically. That’s right. And I wondered if you have any sort of words of advice or something that you would suggest to any, anybody out there who’s thinking about writing their, their memoir about a period that was difficult for them. What would be your words of encouragement to help them get started?

Devon J Hall (27:26):

Woo, easy question, because it’s different for everybody. For me, and again, this goes back to using marijuana medicinally for me, when I first started thinking about writing uncomfortable, one of the other things that I did was I, I, I don’t live too far from Vancouver. I’m about 45 minutes away. And Joyce spent a lot of time just wandering through Vancouver, drinking a lot of Starbucks coffee, probably more than is good for me. And just spending, I spent time just getting to know myself. And so I would go on these dates and I would take myself for coffee and go for gelato and go for lunch. And people might think that that’s not part of the writing process, but it really was very much about spending time getting to know my own mind. I would talk to myself out loud, I’d plug in my headphones and listen to music and have full-blown conversations about the things that I wanted to write, because it was short of my way of bouncing ideas off of my own head and any, you know, what do you think about if I wrote this and what do you think if I wrote about that and just expressing all of the things that I wanted to write about, and it was very much like talking to my very own best friend I recommend doing that.

Devon J Hall (28:45):

I recommend taking herself out on dates, getting to know who you are outside of your husband, your wife, your partner, your kids, your friends, spend time with who you are as an individual, because you can’t write about the hard stuff. Unless you start thinking about all the good stuff that came with the hard stuff. Yeah, it really sucks that I got arrested, but as a result of getting arrested, I started this amazing website. I wrote a book I’m writing a second book, good things have happened on top of that. And that’s made it easier to sit down and write about the tough stuff. That’s lovely advice. Wonderful. I’ve never heard anybody else give that before the idea. Well, I’m crazy. I love it. There’s somebody I follow called Joanna Penn. And I think she would sort of liken that to refilling your crease as well, taking yourself, taking time out, go to a gallery, as

Emma (29:42):

You say, go for coffee, go for walks. Yeah.

Devon J Hall (29:44):

Just spend time getting to know who you are like who is Emma outside of your family and your work and your podcast and everything else. And that’s not something that you have to necessarily share with the world. You can keep that part to yourself, but those moments of spending time alone and getting stoned by the ocean and listening to really great music. Those are the moments. When you look back in a hundred years, you’re going to be like, yeah, I had fun. And, and nobody else like, especially now with the way the technology works, nobody else needs to know that nobody else is on the other side of the phone. You can have those out loud conversations without worrying about other people, judging you or deciding whether or not you’re mentally stable. It doesn’t matter. As long as you’re having a good time getting to know who you are.

Emma (30:37):

That’s so true. It’s so true. Well, listen, tell listeners where they can find you online, where they can connect with you.

Devon J Hall (30:45):

So I’m on Twitter at Devin J hall, and you can find me@loudmouthbrowngirl.com and I’m on Amazon and good reads and Instagram. And I’m all over the place

Emma (30:58):

As Devin G hall as Devin, Jerry Hall. Yeah. Great. Well, I’ll link to those in the show notes. Well, Devin, listen, thanks. So, so, so much for joining me, I find that really really enlightening. And really, even though you’ve been writing about a dark subjects, I found talking to you very uplifting and I love your very positive approach to tackling those difficult times of life, those great areas. So thank you very much.

Devon J Hall (31:25):

Thanks for having me.

Contact Devon J Hall

You can contact Devon via linktree: http://linktr.ee/DevonJhall

Her website is https://loudmouthbrowngirl.com/

If you’re interested in submitting your story to Loud Mouth Brown Girl, you can do it HERE. https://loudmouthbrowngirl.com/2020/09/27/submissions-are-open-writerslift-blackwriters/

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Emma Dhesi writes women’s fiction. She began writing seriously while a stay at home mum with 3 pre-school children.

By changing her mindset, being consistent and developing confidence, Emma has gone from having a collection of handwritten notes to a fully written, edited and published novel.

Having experienced first-hand how writing changes lives, Emma now helps beginner writers find the time and confidence to write their first novel.