(written upon the release of the paperback of The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England) Women were second-class citizens in the Victorian ...
One of the seven pillars of cultural greatness is listening. In fact, the companies that know how to listen best and are among the top 5 percent of businesses worldwide. ...
It was an audition—only it was designed for a writer. I was a tender twenty-four years old, desperate to land this prized gig at an important daily newspaper, and my ...
‘I don’t seem to be able to get traction’, said Susan, an aspiring entrepreneur as we discussed how she could get her new business idea up and running. ‘I get ...
by Harry Sidebottom, Lecturer in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford, and author of The Last Hour. Gladiatorial fighting was not the most popular entertainment. The seating capacity of the ...
While working on my first collection of stories (three of them are now published in English as “The Secret Box”), I created near perfect circumstances for writing. I quit my ...
Like some people, I am great at giving out advice but not really that good at following through and applying it for myself. More a case of ‘Do as I ...
Beginning in the spooky Catskill Mountains and roaming across 1980’s America, Rhidian Brook’s latest novel - The Killing of Butterfly Joe – is part gothic thriller, part existential road trip, ...
There are two questions I’m invariably asked when the subject of Montserrat comes up. “Where the hell is it and how did you come to be there?” The first answer ...
To celebrate the release of her new book From My Heart, Linda Nolan shared some time with us to tell us all about her new autobiography. What can readers expect ...
by Andrea Pennington, MD The first step in embracing self-love is about self-discovery. By identifying and acknowledging your own talents, values, dreams and visions gives your heart and soul a ...
My handwriting is beyond appalling. I had extra handwriting lessons at school, until the teachers gave it up as a hopeless cause. If I write longhand and come back to ...
My novel is about a kidnapping by a clown. Fear of clowns is a well-known phenomenon called coulrophobia. Thankfully I'm not affected. My main phobia - and I don't think it has a ...
As a writer of novels about young adults, I often find myself incorporating feminist themes. I think it’s because living my life as a feminist has made such a positive ...
Write about what you know they say. Always one to break the rules (and who are they, anyway?) I enjoy writing about what I don’t know, taking my readers on ...
Before I started writing my novel The Girls’ Book of Priesthood, I interviewed over twenty women priests from all around the UK. It was a fascinating, often humbling, experience, as ...
General knowledge about psychology Psychopathy, anger, empathy, Dissociative Identity Disorder… As a science journalist with a degree in psychology, I’ve written about countless psychology topics over the years. Since psychology ...
If you decide on a goal— for example, “I’m going to write a novel” or “I’m going to run a 10K”— your subconscious will formulate the likelihood of that happening ...
I’m a binge writer. I wish I could be one of those amazingly disciplined writers who write every day. But I’m not. I give myself a word count I want ...
