It’s one of the most important tools of the modern writer, and yet so often poorly-defined and misunderstood. It’s your author platform, and it’s both a useful way to promote...

Easily the most common question I’m asked about my writing is “How do you find the time?” To put this into context, I have a day job Monday to Friday,...

Not many first-time authors pay much consideration to deciding what tense to write in. Exactly which tense an author feels most familiar with will largely depend on the books they...

It happens to the best of us; someone doesn’t like our work and they decide to let us know. Maybe they tell us in private, maybe they leave a scathing...

I love learning about different cultures. The food, the customs, the geography, the history. The food, again. And it can be tempting to use cultures different to our own in...

I tend to focus on writing fiction here, so I thought it would be good to change things up. This week, I’m looking at a form of writing with its...

Scene-building is one of the most important skills you can have as a writer, and yet it’s so rarely discussed. It can be easy to assume a scene is just...

Self-promotion is a key part of any author’s work. In today’s high-distraction, high-demand world, you need to make sure your promos stand out and catch your audience’s attention. And that...

Mistakes happen. Even the best of us will make typos, place a hotel in the wrong part of a city, put a car park at a sports stadium that doesn’t...

One of the many challenges facing writers in our new age of broken barriers and floods of books, is how far we all go with our self-promotion. Some of us...