Amateur authors and popular prose

Sarah Webb will lead workshop on penning commercial fiction at Waterford Writers Weekend, says Colette Sheridan.

THE Waterford Writers’ Weekend starts today and continues until Sunday. Popular fiction and children’s writer, Sarah Webb, will be chairing a session on how to write a bestseller, sharing her tips on how to tackle commercial fiction, along with writers, Sinéad Moriarty, Niamh Greene and Monica McInerney.

Webb, whose latest book, The Shoe String Club, has just been published, doesn’t like the term ‘chick lit.’ “It’s not really accurate. My latest book is about loss, grieving and addiction. It’s both dark and humorous, so I think popular fiction is a better description. Anyway, I’m not really a chick. I’m 42.”