Author Guest Post

Alexandrea Weis: Ode to My Ghosts

I’m often asked why I write so much about spine-tingling spirits. If you’ve ever strolled…

Benjamin Dean on the inspiration behind his YA debut

I’m often asked for my inspiration behind writing my YA debut, The King is Dead,…

Cat Gray on choosing to write a middle grade children’s novel as opposed to adult fiction

The first novel I wrote was literary fiction. I was studying English literature, and it…

Bea Setton on Berlin and how the German city inspired her debut novel

One of the profound anxieties I have is that because I only have one life,…

Victoria Scott on why she set her new novel in the Malvern Hills

Shortly after my first serious relationship ended when I was 24, my mum took a…

Rebecca Barrow on writing about grief in Bad Things Happen Here

When I was asked to write this piece about grief and why I wrote about…

Lesley Thomson on writing about what you know

The curving outline of bricks slide above me. Silver rails, illuminated by headlamps seem to…

Time’s tricks: the perils of researching historical fiction

The clock hand drives us remorselessly towards our uncertain futures. Time does not go backwards.…

Faith Hogan on writing her latest book The Gin Sisters’ Promise

When I sat down to write The Gin Sisters’ Promise I didn’t really think about…

Georgie Hall on the inspiration behind Woman of a Certain Rage

Like Eliza, the heroine of Woman of a Certain Rage, I’ve found myself angrier in…