Instead of sending me to kindergarten, my mother kept me home and taught me to read, which was lovely. By the time I got to school I had an excellent ...
For those who don’t know me, I’m Kayce Lassiter, and I write contemporary romance, which I call Cowgirl Fiction—stories set on a ranch, a farm, or somewhere close to one. ...
Matilda Tristram, an award-winning illustrator and author from London, was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant with her first child four years ago. It was during this time that Matilda realised ...
After I graduated from university in 1990, I went straight to law school. I practiced corporate law for two years, and I had very difficult work hours. As a teenager, ...
I was a romantic girl, who loved to read… but my father’s idea of raising me was to build my confidence by taking me on real-life adventures to faraway places ...
SHERLOCK HOLMES... WAS YOUNGER THAN YOU THINK – In 1881, when Holmes and Watson began together, Holmes was only 27. In many adventures they were in their early thirties --vibrant ...
To celebrate the release of her new book A Touch Of Frost- we caught up with L.A. Kennedt for a quick Q and A. L.A. Kennedy is a Canadian-born writer, ...
I'm such a picky eater that I've never even tried baked beans, avocado or tuna fish. I also have a genuine and life-threatening mustard allergy so I am not a ...
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, featuring the magical boarding school of Hogwarts, didn’t just become the bestselling children’s books of all time. They had a rather interesting side effect. The ...
“Are you twins?” It’s a question my sister Heather and I have heard at least a million times. There was a time when that question made us roll our eyes, ...
When I was younger, I spent most evenings after school at Tae Kwon Do class. Although I learned how to ‘fight’, Tae Kwon Do is more about respect, self-defense and ...
This was the first Jill Mansell book I ever read, in my early twenties, and I instantly wanted to hang out with the characters. I was genuinely sad to leave ...
Lola Åkerström, author of LAGOM: The Swedish Secret of Living Well, explores how we can reduce stress in our lives with a lagom mindset. The newest Scandinavian trend to hit ...
I gave my tall heels a rub with their shoe bag before I stepped into them. Maybe the only thing Elisabeth Teerlinc had in common with Judith Rashleigh was that ...
It’s a universal relationship. Everyone has been either a parent, or a child, or both. As storytellers we try to create those moments where a reader will feel a tingle ...
The first book I wrote – Cloudesley – was a fantasy adventure for children. I’ve worked on it since with my stepsons and we’ve had great fun coming up with ...
I wrote my first story when I was seven for my younger sister Caroline. It was about Sally Dumpling, a fairy with curves. She lived in a yellow rose and ...
To celebrate the release of her new book The Room by The Lake, Emma Dibdin tells us a little bit about herself. I moved to New York from London two ...
CJ and PK, who write the Sediment blog, are authors of the humorous new paperback I’ve Bought It, So I’ll Drink It: The joys (or not) of drinking wine. To ...
When I first arrived in London in the 1980s you could get into theatres for almost nothing if you were prepared to stand at the back. Then, if you were ...
Award-winning author Theresa Breslin writes a piece for us upon the release of her new novel, The Rasputin Dagger, a love story set in the Russian Revolution. I’ve written over ...
