Fiction

I don’t mean that to sound lazy - I worked very hard on the book. But I know the dangers of research too. You can get far too interested,...

When I started writing The Fall, I was in a state of what I like to describe now as ‘happy ignorance’. I was just telling the story I...

An Oxford undergraduate, Samantha Shannon, has just been offered a six figure, three book deal by Bloomsbury. Such news can make us older writers...

Novelist Rebecca Abrams once told me that the reason that men loved puns and women couldn’t see the point of them was because women’s...

Imagine standing at the open door of a room where all is in darkness, and you can see nothing. Imagine someone flicking on the...

Before you get in touch with any publisher, do your market research and find out which firms bring out the kind of book you have written. Public...