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Advice from tutors is usually sound because they are thinking about the craft; advice from publishers is frequently disastrous. Advice…
Jane is completely reliant on Rochester’s account of his marriage; he refers to Bertha’s madness as hereditary. Jane is completely…
Katharine McMahon on the role of public libraries in her life. Katharine McMahon celebrates the role that public libraries have…
I’ll never forget the delight of that reverential calm as thirty-five young teenagers sat before me, spellbound, silently turning the…
Penny Hancock speaks with John Greening about crime writing, characterisation and real-life inspiration. Penny Hancock speaks with John Greening about…
Recently I fell out of love with the written word; so glib, so manipulable and so manipulative. I started resenting…
One of you once told me you thought I’d been very brave to put so much of myself into the…
Cal Smyth on researching his crime series. Cal Smyth describes the true events that inspired his Balkan-set crime series, and…
I write because I can make a world in my head come alive on the stage or screen. I write…
In ‘My Hero’, RLF writers tell us about personal heroes and the impact they’ve had. In ‘My Hero’, we talk…
I’ve heard tell of the psychopathology of answering machines, the ghost-in-the-machine poetry of microprocessors, but I’ve watched the use of…
While I was shy and embarrassed to begin with, I soon became obsessed. I didn’t like the person I was…
