A few years ago, I was at a book festival talking about my debut novel, Distress Signals. When it came time for the Q&A, a hand in the front row...

How do you know which Point of View to use? If it’s first person, how do you pick which character tells the story? This is one of the things authors...

I used to find it difficult to describe my writing process, but I’ve become a little more deliberate in trying to observe myself over the years. While each book has...

There are a number of “rules” that writers are told, and one of the most common is “Write what you know”. To counter this, we are also told “Make things...

The key to the success of any story is suspense, that delicious ratcheting of tension which keeps the reader glued to the page. This is true of any narrative, whether...

Foreshadowing is one of those tricks in the writer’s toolbox which when used properly goes unnoticed. Let’s face it, we’ve all read books where the hero of the story (I’m...

Tightrope will be my eighth crime fiction novel, and in January this year, I delivered my ninth – the second in the all new Bev Saunders series about the most...

Writing the dreaded sophomore novel is a daunting process. Most authors who have bled over their second book will confirm that. When the time came for me to write another...

Like it or not, we live in the age of the boxset. For writers and film-makers alike, the aim is to find a target audience, discover what they like, and...

What’s the best process to use when writing a book? It’s incredibly important that I say this up front and often: Every writer has a different process. In fact, every...