Fiction

Award-winning speculative fiction author Claire North takes us through how to develop the premise of a story, and just where asking why could take...

Author Jo Thomas discusses the influence of travel on writing and finding inspiration in your surroundings.

Some would say I’ve had it easy when it comes to choosing a setting for my writing. I based my first novels in the stunning French Pyrenees, where I...

‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ is a common question asked of most writers.  I dare say, the vast majority of us who write in the crime genre...

Girton Club-Foot, the apprentice assassin who narrates both Age of Assassins and Blood of Assassins (and the final book, King of Assassins which will...

Claire North takes us through the experience of beginning a book...