What’s your biggest writing ambition – the work you’re most excited to create, and see through to completion? For very many of us, it’s a novel: a full-length work of fiction that we’ve developed from initial idea to a manuscript that’s been...
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How Notion helps you track ideas, submissions, and series bibles Ten years ago, in August 2016, two developers released a new piece of software called Notion (notion.so), which they described as the ‘Lego of productivity tools’. While, as...
Roz Watkins talks about horror and crime in her psychological thrillers In a world where young people face many challenges, social media’s influence can possess them like an old-fashioned demon. This is the terrifying territory explored...
One of this summer’s biggest debuts comes after years of hard graft IWhen my debut novel, Everything to the Sea, sold in 2024, my partner raised a glass to congratulate me on what he called my ‘17-year overnight success’. The only ‘overnight’...
