Author Guest Post

Eleanor Goymer on the statements we make with our bookshelves

The other day a friend casually told me that she’d once ended things with a…

August Bloom on the inspiration behind cosy fantasy The Tiny Magic Bookshop

We’ve all stepped inside a bookshop and immediately fallen a little in love, right? As…

K. A. Linde: How Travel Influences Romantasy Writing

London was bright and sunny in December when I walked the Thames with my husband…

Katie Abdou: Overcoming Grief By Finding Joy In Writing

On the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death, I lost my son. I was halfway…

Georgia Bowers’ Convention Survival Guide

The convention at the heart of Foes and Cons isn’t main character Eliza’s first, but…

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,…