Maria Frances: Merging Fact and Fiction

If you’re anything like me, the tagline “Based on a true story” is an attention…

Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Few fictional duos gave me more joy last year than intrepid scholars Emily Wilde and…

Naina Kumar on the inspiration behind Say You’ll Be My Jaan

Say You’ll Be My Jaan, my debut fake-engagement romcom, is the first book I’ve ever…

Araminta Hall on writing when angry

It’s never a good idea to do anything when angry. Except, right now, anger feels…

Book Review: Lucero by Maya Motayne

It’s been over four years since Maya Motayne’s debut novel Nocturna arrived on the fantasy…

Book Review: This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede

This Cursed Light, the sequel to Emily Thiede’s This Vicious Grace, picks up six months…

Feeling festive: 10 books to get you in the Christmas spirit

It’s a little over a week until Christmas and if you’re still mulling over which…

Ravena Guron on the inspiration behind Catch Your Death

Catch Your Death is my second YA thriller, about three girls who are strangers to…

Ruth Kelly: My close shave with death in the French countryside

Why did I choose to set my latest thriller, The Escape, in the remote French…

Author Justin Lee Anderson’s hometown inspires epic fantasy series

One of the major inspirations for me in writing The Eidyn Saga was that I…

Book Review: Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron

It’s just after New Year’s Eve and three teenage girls are stranded at the isolated…

Akshaya Raman on creating the fantasy map for the The Ivory Key duology

I’ve always loved a good fantasy map, so when it came time to design one…