There’s always a back-to-school feel about autumn, but much more intriguing for many writers will be the way that falling leaves, the turning seasons and nights closing in create a space for the imagination. With Halloween on the horizon, all...
The novelist writes about far-flung locations from her messy home studio Dinah Jefferies moved to England from Malaysia when she was nine. She didn’t start writing novels until she was in her sixties. Her twelfth novel is now out. ‘I wake...
You’ve read the advice, now get into print! Up-to-date submission calls, publishing opportunities and writing competitions Following the $1.5 billion judgement against Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI, and the largest copyright...
The horror writer picks the five books that sent shivers up their spine The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice Like most teenage readers, I went through a vampire phase. And Anne Rice was the quintessential vampire author during that time. The...
Writing a ghost story based in your real world Fauzia Musa’s maternal family was one of the 400 million people impacted by the Partition of India and Pakistan. Her debut novel, The Strangling Fig, is narrated in part by a ghost who carries...
A forensic micro-critique of the beginning of a reader’s manuscript Rafi Hart writes: I’m thirteen, but I wrote Whispers and Side Eyes a year ago. It’s a 70,000 words long trilogy, and I’ve just finished part two. I live in Cornwall, and my...
Developing the commercial edge that got her debut thriller a deal Ionly started thinking about writing fiction after being a doctor for decades. I became more interested in the grey areas and the human psychology behind the decisions...
