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Kara A. Kennedy on exploring ghosts as a metaphor for past trauma

When someone leaves you, whether by tragedy or by choice, are they actually gone? About…

Rufaro Faith Mazarura: Why I wrote a Campus Novel set at the Olympics

It’s 10 am in the middle of the summer and a 22-year-old is crying because…

Abiola Bello on creating love stories in London

When we think of the city of love, Paris is usually what comes to mind…

Emma Bamford on reimagining Hitchcock’s Vertigo from a female protagonist’s perspective

Twenty-six years ago I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo for the first time and…

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar: Libraries shaped who we are and allowed us to become authors

Best friends and bestselling authors Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar have co-authored a brand-new swoonworthy enemies-to-lovers…

Joanna Nadin: Conjuring Characters From Different Decades

The first flicker of a story, for me, is always a character. Plot is character…

Two hundred years since Lord Byron’s death, is our first true celebrity still the ultimate Bridgerton beau?

Bridgerton is back, in another masterful exploration of human frailty. Regency romance has always been…

Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on her love of William Shakespeare as a fictionalised character

I love Shakespeare. I love his plays, his poetry, and I love the man himself,…

Charlotte Butterfield on creating likeable characters

One thing I get asked a lot is how to write characters that readers will…

The Queer Found Family of Now, Conjurers (And of my heart!)

Imagine, if you will, five teenagers. Most of them are queer, all of them are…

Katherine Blake on bending the rules

There are lots of ‘rules’ about writing. So. Many. Rules. One is that authors should…

Seven Rules For Staying Married When Writing With Your Husband

Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos have been married for thirteen years and writing novels together…