Author Interviews

Soraya Bouazzaoui: 'It’s always a writer’s voice that captures my heart first'

In this interview Soraya Bouazzaoui – Senior Commissioning Editor at Headline Eternal, fantasy author and Modern Stories: It Must Be Love romance competition judge – discusses worldbuilding, romantic yearning and her editorial technique.

Soraya Bouazzaoui: 'It’s always a writer’s voice that captures my heart first'

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