Developing your craft

As a writer, it's true that you can set your story anywhere you see fit. And great writers often use location as a device to help develop their...

Judged by Tania Hershman

Date: Tuesday 26th March

Time: Drinks at 6pm and talk at 6.30pm

Place: Bloomsbury Publishing, 50...

There’s always a risk inherent in making the reader stop and think about the writing that you break the spell of concentration. Similes can...

My second children's book, which is about two boys who mess with dreams and old gods, is now, officially, finished. Well, the first draft is. Much...

Having met many of you at our Self-Publishing in the Digital Age conference, we suspected the standard was going to be very high and, blimey, we...

How can you not be interested in the fact that Nelson, like everyone else on HMS Victory, stank like a mouldy dishcloth, and was back on duty an...