Celebrity Interviews

24 August 2020

Ten things readers may not know about me by Arianne Richmonde

Author of The Wife’s House, released by Bookouture, August 24th 2020: Arianne Richmonde is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the psychological thriller, The Wife’s House (released by Bookouture Aug ...

24 August 2020

Top tips for writing a psychological thriller by Amanda Robson

Frustrated and annoyed at not being published, or even having acquired an agent, after spending years researching and writing historical fiction, I determined to write a psychological thriller. Thrillers were ...

20 August 2020

How Covid has impacted man's best friend by Steve Mann

Since Covid struck, there’s been a phenomenal rise is the number of households adding a dog to their family. A recent study has found that 25% of new puppy owners ...

20 August 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Evie Grace

As a writer, I spend much of my time socially distanced and locked down at my laptop anyway, so when Covid-19 struck in March, life should have carried on as ...

Improvise! Use the Secrets of Improv to Achieve Extraordinary Results at Work

20 August 2020

Improv your career! How to act like an improviser to own the room

For most people, the idea of getting on-stage in front of an audience with the aim of making them laugh feels them with a deathly dread. Throw in the stipulation ...

20 August 2020

How I speny my lockdown by Anna Bell

When the pandemic hit and lockdown was imposed, I thought of the practicalities of how things would work with homeschooling and food shopping. I didn’t give any thought to my ...

20 August 2020

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Victoria Hislop

Every book I write… has a very specific genesis. All my novels so far have been “born” at a specific moment. I am visiting somewhere for the first time and ...

20 August 2020

Mums aren't allowed sick days by Claire Allan

I write this from my hospital bed. Which sounds way more dramatic than it really is. Nonetheless, amid a global pandemic I find myself in a hospital ward wearing fetching ...

20 August 2020

Top tips for writing a reimagining story by Jaime Lee Moyer

I’ve written two novels now – Brightfall (2019) and Divine Heretic (2020) – that take a story everyone knows, and tells that story not only a different way, but from ...

20 August 2020

Motherhood in fiction—how my life as a mom sneaks into my plots by Pamela Crane

My kids call me the Mental Mommy. We even made matching t-shirts to commemorate it. The nickname could have evolved because there are four of them and only one of ...

Idris Elba stars in Sky Original series In The Long Run

19 August 2020

Idris Elba wanted to offer "insight" into his earlier life with Sky Original series In The Long Run

Growing up on a rough and tough north London estate didn't provide a natural setting for Idris Elba to launch his career as a Hollywood superstar, yet he believes his ...

Idris Elba

Pixie Lott has teamed up with The Lego Group

18 August 2020

Exclusive: Pixie Lott on The Voice Kids, new music and her collaboration with LEGO DOTS!

Being busy helping nurture the talent of some incredible young performers on The Voice Kids hasn't stopped Pixie Lott having fun, as the songstress recently collaborated with The LEGO Group for ...

Pixie Lott

17 August 2020

How to turn your life around

Have you ever felt that your life isn’t what you want it to be? Turning it around isn’t about answers, it’s about questions. Questions that guide you towards changing the ...

14 August 2020

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Marie Brennan

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11 August 2020

Clara Loveman shares her experience of diversity in fiction

One reason often cited for the persistence in diversity issues in fiction is that publishing houses are not yet hiring more non-white faces. I think there are two more potent ...

11 August 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Julie Lancaster

I was furloughed relatively early from my job as a library assistant, before I even knew what the term ‘furlough’ actually meant, and those first few weeks of lockdown were ...

10 August 2020

What I did in the pandemic by Debra Jo Immergut

Female First asked me to tell you what I’ve been doing in the pandemic. Here are four ways this American novelist has tried to distract herself from obsessive doom-scrolling and ...

10 August 2020

Why I set my thriller in Belfast by Rose McClelland

When you tell someone you are a writer, the first question they will ask is: “Are the books selling well? Does it make money?” With the release of my fourth ...

10 August 2020

Five tips for keeping safe online

Cybersecurity expert Geoff White shares his top 5 tips on how to keep safe online, based on his book Crime Dot Com (Reaktion Books, 10th August) https://www.waterstones.com/book/crime-dot-com/geoff-white/9781789142853 As coronavirus swept ...

6 August 2020

My writing day by Clare Marchant

I am a morning person, at six-thirty every day I leap out of bed, raring to go. I wish. In fact, I only get up at that time because a) ...

6 August 2020

Six tips to help people feel less stressed in today’s world

By Serge Beddington-Behrens Ph.D Author of Gateways to the Soul: Inner work for the outer world by Serge Beddington-Behrens, published by Inner Traditions, is available online and in all good ...

6 August 2020

The power of kindness by Jacqui Rose

‘Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.’ Dalai Lama With fear and loss and huge uncertainty all around us, it’s difficult to think that anything particularly positive has come ...

6 August 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Minnie Darke

I confess that I’m one of those people … one of the ones who loved ‘lockdown’. Somehow, in recent years, my life as a working and writing mother-of-three spiraled completely ...

6 August 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Amanda Weinberg

author of The Tears of Monterini, RedDoor Press, 6th August 2020 Writing can be a lonely past time. Hours spent at a desk immersed in one’s head; inventing, thinking, watching ...