Amelia Blackwell, author of the “quirky and utterly gripping” (Gizmodo) A Crime Through Time, has just participated in a Q&A with The Shit No One Tells You About Writing—a bi-weekly newsletter from literary agents Carly Watters and Cecilia Lyra. 

In the interview, Amelia speaks about her journey to securing representation, the highs and lows of her career as an author and her advice to any aspiring authors.

Read the full interview here.

Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn’t expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future.

Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a terrible crime has been committed. And Miss Darcy – newly arrived, impeccably dressed and thoroughly confused – is the only witness.

It soon becomes clear that, somehow, Georgiana was meant to solve this riddle. With the help of a distractingly handsome Irishman named Quinn and a border collie named Watson, she sets out to stop the killer before they can strike again. But trouble is brewing back at Pemberley and time, it seems, is not on her side . . .

The US paperback edition of A Crime Through Time is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via the US website for Bookshop.org.

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