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Building Community From The Shadows: The Inspiration Behind Melissa Blair’s A Shadow Crown

What inspired me to write The Halfling Saga is a hard thing to narrow down…

Anne Worthington on the germ of the idea for The Unheard

I am a documentary photographer and writer. I came to writing having been a documentary…

Kate Weston: Why I wanted to include period positivity in a murder mystery novel

It’s always baffled me that people are completely fine with blood in a murder mystery…

Jill Johnson on the plant inspiration behind Devil’s Breath

I’ve always been better with plants than people and I tend to name people after…

Debut author Swéta Rana on the balance between expressiveness and stoicism

Much like Tania, the main character of Queuing for the Queen, I was never much…

Siobhan MacGowan on the real life incidents that inspired The Graces

The Graces, set at the turn of a 20th century Ireland, tells the story of…

Ruth Kelly: Why islands make great settings for thrillers

Authors have been using islands as locations for thrillers for decades. Agatha Christie started the…

Louise Wolhuter: Isn’t there more to everyone than meets the eye?

When I was a little girl, there was an old woman we’d often see round…

Author Alexander Darwin discusses the appeal of the found father trope

There’s a reason for Pedro Pascal’s recent rise in popularity and it isn’t just his…

S.J. Wills: Welcome to Tremorglade

One night each month, Sel Archer takes his mum down to the basement of their…

Tasha Harrison on the inspiration behind her YA rom-com The Thing About Lemons

As a teenager of the 80s, my parents took me and my younger brother on…

Luna McNamara on reimagining Psyche’s story in her debut novel, Psyche and Eros

Sometimes people ask me why I gave Psyche a sword. To which I answer: why…