Fantasy and Science Fiction: It’s Never About the Dragons by Joe Murphy
I miss Game of Thrones. Monday night. Kids in bed. On comes the theme tune
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I miss Game of Thrones. Monday night. Kids in bed. On comes the theme tune
Many fiction writers place food centre-stage in their stories. In Like Water for Chocolate when
It was whilst taking some creative writing classes that I first had the idea for
When the world shut down and the chance to escape on a whim was taken
A question on my English GCSE exam was ‘how does Charles Dickens use weather to
The Truth About Lisa Jewell by Will Brooker is the the story of how a
On the Pleasure of Dread My second novel Crookedwood began on some level, years ago,
Location is a big thing for me. I need to know intricate details of where
I run an online writers group through Facebook called Writers Ink (featured on the RTE
When I first started writing and realised that I really need to learn how before
For me, a great thriller is character driven, I want my readers to feel like
I consider myself incredibly lucky to be doing two of my dream jobs. I’ve been
Visitors to Florida know our white sand beaches and theme parks, but there is also
To borrow Alan Bennett’s formula from The History Boys, the thing about landscape is that
A book like Game of Thrones, a movie like Star Wars, or even a video
Reflections on including the Northern Irish landscape I grew up with as a key character
Since the publication of my novel Six Postcards Home in 2013 with Poolbeg Press, I’ve
Someone famous once said ‘The setting is the story’. I have long since forgotten who
If people say anything about my comedic L.A. noir novel Nobody Move, it’s that the
The importance of ‘building on detail’ is a well-known fact when writing fiction. Fiction works
