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Erika Johansen: Why I would rather read a great yarn than great literature

I always wanted to be a writer. But you can’t really specialize in creative writing…

Helen Hawkins: Why Christmas and romance are the perfect match

Read a romance novel and you know the protagonists will fall in love, but set…

Jack Grimwood on finding the courage to write autism from inside

Arctic Sun, the third of the Tom Fox novels, after Moskva and Nightfall Berlin, is dedicated: For every iteration of…

Helen Fisher on story inspiration and the idea behind Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life

Apparently, a lot of authors don’t like the question “where do you get your ideas…

Author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton talks ‘Momagers’ and her latest book On the Rooftop

My husband was the first to notice that Vivian, the main character in my most…

Jennifer Claessen on taking old stories and reworking them to fit a more modern world

Merlin, the many storied wizard, is different in every version but he is always mostly…

Emma Orchard on the tricky issue of sex in historical romance

“There was something else at her entrance, something hard and hot and very, very demanding.”…

Jennifer Lane: 6 witchy YA reads perfect for Halloween

As a practising witch, Halloween is my busiest time – it is the Witches’ New…

G. M. Linton on how the Windrush generation and self-identity inspired her Sunshine Simpson series

I nagged my parents for a typewriter for my sixteenth birthday; they duly saved up…

Jasmine Richards: 5 middle grade fantasy books with Black characters

To celebrate the release of The Myth Keeper, the fast-paced middle-grade fantasy sequel to The Unmorrow…

Derek Landy on sharing storytelling responsibilities and relinquishing control

I’m quite used to being the emperor of my own empire. I’ve been writing the…

Rebecca Netley on the difficulties of writing ghost stories

As a long-time lover of supernatural and ghost stories it had always been my burning…