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When I’m reading back work, I try to wear my ‘audience’ hat. I remove myself as the writer, and read…
Mahendra Solanki speaks with Amanda Whittington about a violent childhood, the value of libraries and writing vs therapy. Mahendra Solanki…
Someone once said, “Praise is always personal; rejection almost never is”. It might have been me that said it, but…
For complete relaxation, crime fiction from America, Britain and Scandinavia; these are the books I most enjoy as they have…
Please don’t assume that speaker and poet are always identical; the voice addressing you directly could be a fragment of…
My glorious career as a primary school teacher lasted three years before my most indulgent husband agreed that I could…
Christina Koning on how researching a novel set in wartime helped her to deal with the pandemic. Researching her latest…
Planning, mapping out a plot, creating characters, building the world they inhabit, is itself a creative process. Planning, mapping out…
I am a crime writer, but all of my books represent a combination of crime, romance, horror and family saga,…
Jon Mayhew goes feral on the Wirral, and Sue Roe surprises herself with Leicester. Jon Mayhew lauds Eastham Woods on…
What starts off as marketing turns into googling yourself, and checking for likes and dislikes of your videos… a two-hour…
My father taught me to garden, to be handy with a chisel, to follow a circuit diagram; my mother, how…
