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Podcast: Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
Episode: AN6: RAF Tornado GR4 combat pilot Mandy Hickson talks about her duty to write a book and how the publishing industry rejected her on the basis that ‘plane books are for a male readership who have no interest in reading about a woman’
Description: Send a textIn this excerpt from my interview with Mandy Hickson, author of An Officer, Not a Gentleman, talks about why and how she finally decided to write her memoir, and how the common theme of publishers not knowing how to market a book featuring women in aviation. Mandy is doing very well as a self-published author. Did you know you can support your local independent bookshop and me by shopping through my Bookshop.org affiliate links on my website? If a book is available on Bookshop.org, you'll find a link to it o...