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Caroline James Finds Fiction Gold – On a Cruise Ship

I never wanted to go on a cruise. I couldn’t understand the attraction of being…

Kate Weston: An ode to Selling Sunset

Dear Selling Sunset, I love you. I love your outfits, your savage drama, and your…

Amy de la Force: What Buffy taught me about strong female leads

‘In every generation, there is a chosen one’ – and my chosen hero wore leather…

Ava Eldred on how her love of musical theatre inspired Exit Stage Death

When the question of what my second YA novel should be about came up, in…

Kenneth Oppel: When Art Becomes Reality

When I started writing Best of All Worlds it felt like a cautionary tale or…

Marisa Linton on becoming a fiction writer after sixty

Looking back, it seems inevitable that I would become a fantasy writer, right from when…

Chloe Ford: Reading romance as a teen was better than sex education

I started my romance reading adventure around the age of thirteen. I’d grown up watching…

Rosaria Munda: Stories Are Like Soup

Don’t rush them. The longer they simmer, the richer and more complex they come out.…

Annaliese Avery: A Brief Guide To The Most Magical Season

When I set off to write a story I often start with a short concept…

Joanna Nadin: Autistic All Along – Reassessing Characters in the Wake of an Autism Diagnosis

I was diagnosed as autistic in the autumn of 2024, a few years after my…

Lindsey Byrd on pulling the world of science and medicine into the world of magic

When I first applied for university, I went to Alfred State College, a SUNY school…

Bryony Pearce: Why do we love myth?

Myths are tales presented as factual accounts, which focus on gods and goddesses and /…