In this exclusive for Femalefirst Mark Pieser reveals some amazing and shocking facts about his book N-4 Down you will be enthralled amaed and shocked - read on Roald Amundsen ...
When I was a shy, awkward fourteen-year-old, I had the great fortune of befriending the coolest girl in the world. I’ll call her Lex. Lex was a few years older ...
Over the past four decades, seasoned traveller Graham Askey has visited nearly 100 countries, including many far off the beaten track where poverty and a lack of basic amenities such ...
Writing can be a lonely business – long hours spent hunched over a keyboard, silence all around – so give an author a chance to talk and they’ll chew your ...
About Alison Ragsdale A former marketing executive, originally from Edinburgh, Alison now lives near Washington D.C. with her husband and dog. She was educated in England and holds an MBA ...
Fantasy is the oldest genre in the world, the genre of myths and legends. It’s also the genre I always come home to as a writer, both for the infinite ...
To say that Pet Semetary is dark is to say that water is wet. There are no nice feelings in this book. Bad things happen to reasonably good people caught ...
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Rijula Das
In the red-light district of Shonagachhi, Lalee dreams of trading a life of penury and violence for one of relative luxury as a better-paid ‘escort’. Her ...
Author Rijula Das talks to us about her new book "Small Deaths' and gives us an insight into her life and ambtions and her view on fellow author Terry Pratchett Tell ...
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I’ve always been too cool to be a ‘fan’ of anyone, save a youthful phase of being madly enamored of Leonardo Di Caprio in the winter of 1997 and ...
Character drives the narrative.
The omnipotent power to mold a person on the page is a delicious prospect. To be believable, the reader must be given intimate insight into a character’s ...
I used to believe grief was a straight line. Maybe time didn’t necessarily heal all wounds, but at least it made them easier to live with. I learned differently on ...
I write emotionally charged psychological thrillers and want the reader to turn the last page feeling like they’ve been through a carwash in a shopping trolley. My favourite books are ...
Dear Louise, As I write this letter, I can imagine you tipping your head back and laughing that larger than life laugh of yours and telling me I’m mad for ...
When people say they don’t drink what do you think? If you don’t drink how do people react? Before I went alcohol-free for the first time in 2013, I thought ...
1. As a student in the 1970s, I went to live in West Germany and was almost immediately thrown out of my lodgings when the tenants discovered they shouldn’t be ...
Dear Francis, Your first romance novel was published a year before I was born. I found it when I was twelve, tucked in the back of my mother’s closet ...
When women form friendship groups, they tend to adopt different roles: • The ‘organiser’, who rounds everyone up and arranges where to meet. • The ‘caretaker’, who is a good ...
I have an identical twin sister. Actually we’re called mirror image twins because I’m right handed and she’s left handed. We used to play tricks on people, switch classes and ...
Dear Angela Carter, You have now been dead for thirty years, stolen away by cancer at the height of your powers. You left behind your lover and your son, and ...
1. Firstly, if you’d told me twenty years ago that in 2022 I would have twenty published novels to my name I would have laughed. The reason why I would ...
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a passion for history. When I was very young, I would devour any books, films, and TV programmes that had an ...
