At first glance it seems like blind judging is a great idea, but there are some surprising issues. Discover the nuances.
The organisers of the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival contacted me recently, to let me know that my flash fiction story This Will Be the Hole is one…
A lot of aspiring authors talk about writing a lot but don’t actually write. If you suspect that’s something you do, then here’s how to turn talk into action.
A review of the only coffee maker in a James Bond novel, the Chemex. It’s a design classic, but is it any good at making coffee?
My short story, The Samhain Roads, has been published in Superpresent Magazine. In it you can follow siblings Aoife and Liam as they search for their missing sister…
Maybe you spent ten years writing your novel, but you still only have ten seconds to sell it to a potential reader… and that’s why you need to know how to write a blurb.
Fade-Out, written by Patrick Tilley and published in 1975, is a cult classic, first-contact-with-aliens novel. It’s been a steady seller for fifty years and never out of print,…
I chose these albums as my top ten because they influenced my musical taste and that I played them a lot at certain points in my life. Inevitably,…
An iconic scene from the movie Amadeus encapsulates what I call ‘The Amadeus Myth’. Picture this: a dimly lit room and the sound of a piano in the…
A great tagline can make the difference between your novel selling like hot cakes and it not selling at all… and that, fundamentally, is why you need to…