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…
Did you ever stare at a blank page or screen for so long your eyes went funny? Or rewrite a sentence fifteen times and then finally delete it…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, written by John le Carré and published in 1974, is le Carré’s masterpiece, even better than The Spy Who Came In From The Cold….
An analysis of ‘The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met’ and why Disney cartoons used to be so incredibly dark and traumatic.
How to tread the fine line between making your story dramatic and slipping into melodrama.