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Melissa Welliver on the research process when you’re writing fiction

How do you research something that hasn’t happened yet? This is the question dystopian authors…

Amy Goldsmith: A Love Letter to Horror

Some people get their thrills riding rollercoasters, some enjoy skydiving, but I get mine from…

Hannah Nicole Maehrer: Grumpy Villains and Sunshine Assistants

My Villain obsession began young. I recall watching the cartoon villains on my television screen…

G. D. Wright: How my work as a family liaison officer helped me give a voice to victims through my writing

I’ve just spent a few hours digging through years of accumulated paperwork and files, searching…

Mimi Deb on finding stillness while taking strides

ONE STEP AT A TIME. ONE WORD AT A TIME. That’s my philosophy: for my…

Kara A. Kennedy on exploring ghosts as a metaphor for past trauma

When someone leaves you, whether by tragedy or by choice, are they actually gone? About…

Rufaro Faith Mazarura: Why I wrote a Campus Novel set at the Olympics

It’s 10 am in the middle of the summer and a 22-year-old is crying because…

Abiola Bello on creating love stories in London

When we think of the city of love, Paris is usually what comes to mind…

Emma Bamford on reimagining Hitchcock’s Vertigo from a female protagonist’s perspective

Twenty-six years ago I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo for the first time and…

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar: Libraries shaped who we are and allowed us to become authors

Best friends and bestselling authors Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar have co-authored a brand-new swoonworthy enemies-to-lovers…

Joanna Nadin: Conjuring Characters From Different Decades

The first flicker of a story, for me, is always a character. Plot is character…

Two hundred years since Lord Byron’s death, is our first true celebrity still the ultimate Bridgerton beau?

Bridgerton is back, in another masterful exploration of human frailty. Regency romance has always been…