Author Guest Post

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…

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…