A society affair

‘My working life had always been in “personnel” but joining the Society of Women Writers and Journalists (SWWJ) in 1986 as a Probationer member was the beginning of my writing career,’ says subscriber Pamela Birley, who writes as Bradley Bernarde.

‘I was fortunate enough to achieve a place in a number of SWWJ short story competitions and after completing a creative writing course, I published a number of short stories in national magazines.

‘Following retirement from fulltime work, I began writing under the pseudonym Bradley Bernarde,, a time-travel fantasy set in Austen’s England, and published by Whydown books in 2003, that launched my career as a novelist. ( was later published as an ebook with the title .)