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8th December 2020
When I started writing The Fall, I was in a state of what I like to describe now as ‘happy ignorance’. I was just telling the story I...
Dedicated Genre Advice
You are interested in articles on specific writing genres; e.g. historical fiction, crime, children's, speculative fiction etc. (Influenced by genre tags above)
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8th December 2020
An Oxford undergraduate, Samantha Shannon, has just been offered a six figure, three book deal by Bloomsbury. Such news can make us older writers...
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8th December 2020
Novelist Rebecca Abrams once told me that the reason that men loved puns and women couldn’t see the point of them was because women’s...
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16th December 2020
At recent events with authors, I kept hearing people discussing their genre. Mostly in slightly baffled tones. This is another example...
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10th December 2020
Imagine standing at the open door of a room where all is in darkness, and you can see nothing. Imagine someone flicking on the...
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8th December 2020
Does anyone really know when it’s time for vampires, wizards, fairies, angels or sci-fi? People talk about zeitgeist, intuition and talent...