Author Amanda Addison on celebrating multiple ethnicities in YA storytelling. Looking for Lucie is a YA novel in which the key protagonist, Lucie Hansen, is forever asked the question: Where are you ...

After a brainstorming session with literary agent Kate Nash, the idea for a female-led gritty gangland thriller called Deceit, was born. People will have no idea how close I came to giving up my dream ...

There’s a scene in the 1995 movie Seven, directed by David Fincher, that I sometimes show my students. It’s a crime thriller, starring Brad Pitt as a young, fiery detective and Morgan Freeman as his ...

This novel started with a knock at the window. I was sitting in a train about to leave London for Glasgow when my girlfriend tapped on the glass, her face fallen, eyes brimming with tears. She had ...

This was the first book that I read with the Co-Operative Housing of Ireland’s new book club set up by Anthony Burrowes back in February 2021. Anne Griffin’s’ novel, When All is Said is published by ...

In 1984, a mile away from my house, in a suburb of Manchester, the body of a red-haired, bearded man was discovered in a peat bog, next to a pond called Black Lake. He had a garrotte around his neck.

It’s a tough field this year! We had many excellent entries to The Writing.ie Short Story of the Year competition from some of the worlds most prestigious publishers. Here is the long list of twelve ...

Just as a magpie likes to swoop for glittery things to line its nest, as a historical novelist, I’m constantly on the lookout for fascinating facts and details to weave into my books to share with my ...

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts. That leaves a very small window ...

An Accident in Paris began life as a screenplay. I emailed early sections to producers and waited for the silence. You know how it is in our business. That period after you’ve hit Send can be ...

I was walking home from the shop with my partner. It was autumn, maybe. I think there were leaves on the ground, though those could have been from another walk memory that I’ve merged with this one. I ...

In 2017, the year I began writing Blue Running, the headlines in Texas news were lively. In spite of Donald Trump’s shocking election to the presidency, the recurring headlines in Texas were ...