Crime is one of the biggest selling genres in the UK and Irish market and we have seen a massive surge in readers of this genre over the past number...

Ryan Turbridy interviews some of the best Irish authors and most people are familiar with his show on RTE Radio 1 (https://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_ryantubridy.xml), but today I wanted to bring you some...

In this week’s Really Useful Links column, I thought I would turn the focus towards podcasts and take a look at some of the wonderful writing related series available. There...

For my first, “Really Useful Links” column, I thought it might be useful to focus on some links for Irish authors that deal with copyright and plagiarism. This is a...

This week I’d like to go into an important aspect of writing, who your story is about: the characters. As much as you need to take care with your setting...

I’ve been writing for a long time and if there’s one skill that has served me best out of everything I’ve learned, it’s critical analysis. Literary criticism is the study...

Flash Fiction is something I’ve been trying out a little on my Patreon. It’s a form of storytelling involving extremely condensed action and narrative. Often it won’t even have a...

One of the first things any writer should work out is what genre they want to write in. Not only does it help with querying to agents and publishers, since...

It’s one of the most important parts of writing, yet it’s so basic that many might overlook it in their efforts to become better writers. Readability affects every aspect of...

Writing isn’t easy. There are few degree-level courses you can take in it, and it can be difficult to nail down objective skills that will make one a ‘good writer,’...