Can you say you’ve learned a lesson if it’s not something new? If it’s something you learned the very first time you wrote for readers other than yourself If it’s...

I published my first novel in March.  It’s called The File Note. A murder mystery set in the sleepy village of Kilcreddin. The launch was in Dubray Book Shop on...

Irish writer Jane Casey has just released her latest novel Cruel Acts with Harper Collins, featuring the formidable DS Maeve Kerrigan. We were delighted that Jane was able to spend...

‘Where do your ideas come from?’ Every writer gets asked that, and though it seems like a simple question, the answer is often anything but. So when the lovely people...

According to Stephen King, if you want to be writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot, and write a lot. On the writing side, he...

I’ve long wanted to write a novel set in Victorian times and was particularly drawn to the narratives of the Irish settlers in London. They’d done what members of my...

The Killer in Me is set in Dublin and follows DCS Frankie Sheehan as she takes on her next case. Seventeen years ago, the community of Clontarf was shocked when...

I get asked this question a lot, after two well received police procedural novels, why did I switch genres so drastically to write a glamorous Bollywood novel? Books have been...

I am a self-published author. There was a time when that sentence was usually only spoken in church basements and was preceded by the words, “Hello. My name is Derek...

A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself started for me when my neighbor in Brooklyn—let’s call her Linda—told my mother and me a story about being invited over to...