Author Guest Post

The inspiration and real live events surrounding The Storyteller By The Sea by Phyllida Shrimpton

I’m a child again, playing on the beach in Devon, the cool sand beneath my…

Kate Goldbeck: From The Rolodex to Raya

My debut novel, You, Again, is a romcom loosely inspired by When Harry Met Sally.…

Laura Steven on the epiphanies she had while writing Every Exquisite Thing

It feels incredibly embarrassing to admit this, but I’ve spent at least twenty years of…

Gretchen Rue: A Wicked Bit of Inspiration

There’s a question authors hear an awful lot, and that is: where do you get…

Diana Reid on where to draw the line when it comes to self-care

Thanks to advertising, we’re all familiar with the concept of self-care. The exhortation “Treat yourself!”…

L. C. Rosen on gay stereotypes

I like to think my YAs are ways of reclaiming and humanizing the stereotypes of…

Bonk or bust: Will the romp ever gallop back into vogue?

When I was first published in the early 1990s, the glitzy Bonkbuster was riding high…

Halley Sutton: Building a book out of true crime obsessions

Where do your ideas come from? It’s a question every writer has gotten at least…

Michelle Quach on writing a friends-to-lovers rom-com

Whenever I sit down to write a romance, the first trope I reach for is…

Sara Ochs: Escaping to the End of the World

There’s something so tantalizing about escape. I feel it often, that tingle to shed my…

Chris Parker on writing women narrators and seeing the world from their eyes

I’ve been asked why I chose to make the narrator of my first novel, Nameless…