Romance? I Prefer a Plot
Hands up if you’ve heard a variation on this theme: Romance is all very well but I prefer…
I Know Something You Don’t Know
A piece of writing advice you see a lot is to do a character sketch, which is sometimes…
Book Shapes (or, from Nonono! to Flail!)
I just published Jackdaw, an everyday tale of lost love, betrayal, murder, walking on air, justice, vengeance, doomed…
How Authors Should Help Reviewers Write Reviews*
*They shouldn’t. There was a kerfuffle last week around an author’s blog post about the ‘obligations’ of a…
Some Things I’m Really Glad I Read
I’m sure we’ve all had it with the end of year round up but, you know, it’s December.…
The Shape of Books to Come (And Gone)
Received wisdom of traditional publishing: Short stories don’t sell. They win literary prizes like stink, but they don’t…