Like so many things, it began with my tonsils. In the summer of 2015, I got the kind of tonsillitis where swallowing water feels like chugging a beaker of ground...

When Bookouture made an offer to publish The Queen’s Wing, my strange little space opera fantasy, I was over the moon, to say the least. Often a book just has...

Grass is Greener Syndrome I live in Japan, and have done so, on and off, for about the last twenty years. I don’t particularly want to be here if truth...

I was asked recently where the idea for my book Number Games came from. It’s very difficult to pinpoint inspiration. In my case there seemed to have been a lot...

Where, when, and how Widow’s Welcome, our political fantasy novel, started life is a subject of much dispute. The “D” of D.K. Fields remembers the moment of inspiration with startling...

Every day I open countless jiffy bags, and I’m always excited to see what slides out on to my desk. My job at Fabulous magazine reviewing books allows me a...

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...