Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling author, speaker, novelist, and host of the no. 1 creative careers podcast in the UK, Ctrl Alt Delete. Emma started her career in digital marketing and social media editor roles at The Debrief magazine and Condé Nast. She has been a columnist for The Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Courier magazine on the topics of work, wellbeing, creativity and choosing your own path.
With a hit podcast and three bestselling nonfiction books, Emma Gannonhas made the sharp pivot into the world of fiction. Here, shetells Laura Hampsonabout writing her debut novel
I just felt like we were all going in completely different directions for the first time, and I really wanted to write about that. I wanted to write about four women who were completely different suddenly, after being so similar for so long. It was scary as it was new. Some things you try and fail at. I was prepared for the risk of trying it and it potentially never going anywhere. I think that's sort of the pattern of my career - I just try things on the side. And a lot of them fail and you never see them and I never talked about them again.