Author Guest Post

Dwight Thompson: Books and tracks that inspired My Own Dear People

The title of my novel, My Own Dear People, is taken from V.S. Naipaul’s epistolary…

Tig Wallace: Write What You Want

There came a point years ago when I had a choice to make. I knew…

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.…