Dear writer, your book is written, your friends loved it, your mother loved it and she sobbed with pride. My mother, by the way, read my book – a paranormal...

Ready Player One opens in cinemas soon and it’s going to be a major event, not least because it marks Stephen Speilberg’s return to directing SciFi. The film is based...

      I wrote my first book in 2011, my second in 2012, third and half of fourth in 2013. I gave up on number four to start number...

Voice is something I’ve been interested in for years. My mum’s a writer, but practised as a speech therapist, so maybe that was the starting point. As a kid, I...

Graham Tugwell is an Irish writer of short, strange fiction and an incredible novel FOLD (currently seeking a home). Over eighty of his stories have been published across five continents....

Mums, I think most artists would agree, are the unsung heroes of the creative world. I happen to have a particularly great one, and she was instrumental in helping me...

The idea of genre leaves me nervous. One book is literary and the other book is historical, his book is crime and her book is commercial fiction. Aren’t they all...

“It takes twelve bees their entire lives to gather enough nectar to make one teaspoon of honey. It should be priced like gold.” Laline Paul Laline Paull’s remarkable and quite...

The world of literature is bigger now, and full of possibilities. Lines are crossing and blurring and it’s becoming more and more difficult to slot books easily into genres. This...

Shattered is the debut novella from Belfast born dark fiction author C.S. Kane. Here she talks about how the book came to be and how the specialist US horror publisher...