Bex Goos on writing a book-within-a-book story

Every book I write is a house. When construction is done, when the furniture has…

Amy Mae Baxter: Why is everything so cozy now?

When you think of ‘fantasy’, what comes to mind? Dragons, swords, breath-taking worlds with danger…

Read an extract from Red Tide by Curtis Jobling

In 900 AD Shetland, a fearless Norse girl and a blacksmith’s son must fight for…

Book Review: Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan

In the wake of World War I, the world is a damaged and decidedly unmagical…

Seán Farrelly: Social Media Is Our Colosseum

Tom Burne has kind of a funny origin story. I was in Dublin airport on…

The Movie Scene Method: Sloane Fletcher on Plotting Novels at a High Level

Someone recently asked me if I was a plotter or a pantser. I replied, “Pantser.…

Romcom author Hannah Doyle on stepping into speculative fiction

After pressing send on my fifth contemporary romcom The Spa Break, which published last summer,…

Read an extract from The Shadow That Finds Us by Andy Darcy Theo

Alexis, Blaise, Caeli and Demi return to the Haven, carrying scars both on the surface…

Book Review: The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke

What do you get if you strand six struggling authors on a remote island and…

Read an extract from The Lies of Lena by Kylie Snow

In Tovagoth, Mages like Lena Daelyra live in fear: hunted, outlawed, and reviled. Even after…

Read an extract from Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell

Once upon a time, on the edge of a forest, there was a lonely child…

Read an extract from Game On by Navessa Allen

I hate that woman. Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not…