The Daughter-in-law Syndrome by Stevie Turner

What process do you need in order to write? Jjspina: Wow, Stevie! That is quite impressive! I read A House without Windows and was blown away by it! ‘ Finding David’ reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition, and my latest book ‘ His Ladyship’ reached the finals and long list of the 2021 Page Turner Writing Award. My screenplay ‘ For the Sake of a Child’ won a silver award in the Spring 2017 Depth of Field International Film Festival, and my novel ‘ A House Without Windows’ gained interest in 2017 from De Coder Media, an independent film production company based in New York. I also wrote an article ‘ Look on the Bright Side of Life’ that was included in the 2016 book ‘ They Say I’m Doing Well’ which contains articles about mental illness, (proceeds go to the charity MIND). One of my short stories, ‘ Lifting the Black Dog’, was published in ‘1000 Words or Less Flash Fiction Collection’ (2016).

I like to focus on Romantic Suspense, Humour, Paranormal stories, and Women’s Fiction (family dramas). By this time my two sons had left home and I had more time to myself. However, I did not take up writing seriously until 2013. After winning an inter-schools’ writing contest, I began to keep a diary and often added little stories and poems to it as the years went by.

I grew up in the East End of London and was fortunate enough to attend an excellent primary school which encouraged creative writing.

The Daughter-in-law Syndrome by Stevie Turner