I’ll never forget the voice in my head on a bumpy plane ride to Florida from Boston on frosty November morning back in 2015. She was a child, probably around...

Sam Copeland is an author. He is from Manchester and now lives in London with two smelly cats, three smelly children and one relatively clean-smelling wife. He works as a...

A writer in the eye of the publishing industry This is a profile about a writer. The writer is me, but I’m going to talk about her behind her back,...

Nick East has been an author-illustrator since 2012. In this relatively short period of time, he has been shortlisted for the English Picture Book awards, Long-listed for The Evening Standard’s Oscar’s...

Write what you know. That’s what they say, isn’t it? But I’ve always felt, whoever ‘they’ are, that they say an awful lot of stupid things. Especially when it comes...

Entering Narnia: moving from teen to middle grade fiction My first six books were written for teenagers and I had a clear audience in mind – the secondary school students...

Aisha Bushby was born in the Middle East and has lived in Kuwait, England and Canada. Her short story, Marionette Girl, was featured in the Stripes award-winning anthology, A Change...

We writers are ever curious about other writers’ habits, histories, fears and hopes. Always looking for nuggets of gold, or possibly the ‘method,’ the mystical ‘way of the writer.’ The...

The journey from a thing you’re making to a thing that you have made is not a straight line. And even when you reach a milestone- having your work be...

My writing career so far has been painted in primary colours: think bears in bow-ties on their first day of school, roaring dragons, fairytale witches, super-sorting robots and ever-so-fancy fairy...