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Dungeons and Deadlines: the dual life of a writer and a role-player

If I’d never touched a role-playing game then I wouldn’t be a writer, full stop.…

Book Review: Cursed by Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer’s Gilded was an enchanting YA reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale, complete with romance,…

Very Festival 2022 Preview

The rainy season is tailing off and cool season is soon to arrive in Thailand,…

Book Review: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

If you somehow managed to miss Legendborn when it was first published in 2020, then…

No Bears Review

Sometimes a movie is inextricable from its context. Iranian director Jafar Panahi has spent his…

Kate Forster: A Gothic Christmas Story

Christmas can be an emotional time for people and sometimes this holiday can come with…

Book Review: Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q Sutanto

If you can imagine Crazy Rich Asians as a book about teens where the younger…

Linn B Halton on the inspiration behind Finding Happiness at Penvennan Cove

Whether it’s bathed in glorious sunshine, or the wind and rain are battering the coastline…

Jenny Bayliss on writing about characters in their thirties

In the UK eighteen marks the age at which we legally become adults. From that…

Book Review: The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

Kelly Andrew’s debut opens with a dedication that reads: ‘For anyone who knows what it…

Margaret Rogerson on a different kind of romance

As an author, reader expectations can be tricky. My first two novels prominently feature romance;…

Fall Review

Fall opens half way up a mountain, so you know what’s coming. Hunter (Virginia Gardner),…