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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…

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,…

Caroline Cauchi: The Titanic’s “Unlucky” Daughter and the Story Beyond the Curse

Everyone thinks they know the story of the Titanic: the “unsinkable” ship, the iceberg, the…

Cassidy Ellis Salter on using fantasy to explore topics like anger and identity

When I was growing up, I thought I had no right to anger. It was…

Megan Davidhizar on the inspiration behind YA thriller Gaslit

When my husband and I moved into our first house, I didn’t expect to be…

Jane Dougherty: Reclaiming Pasiphaë from the gutter press

I was brought up with myths. Being of Irish origin on both sides, they were…

Amy Lea: Confessions of a Secret Romance Author

Authors write under pen names for all sorts of reasons. Some of us want privacy.…

Need a STEM romance fix? Here are 10 books to get obsessed with until we can press play on the Love Hypothesis movie

If you’re anywhere on the bookish internet these days, you’ll know that Ali Hazelwood’s rom-com…

Shailee Thompson: Sidekick to Soulmate – Reflection on the evolution of female friendships in film

Picture the scene, a plucky, neurotic, independent working girl is walking down a big city…