Having completed and now releasing my Sci-fi novel Retaliation, I have compiled a list of the top ten most important things that you have to consider when writing in this ...
Science Fiction comes across as a vast genre of writing. Yet, if one looks at mainstream adventure science fiction, one can see certain common features in it. People, who read ...
Some sage advice from the award winning, bestselling author, John Scalzi, whose new novel, The Collapsing Empire, is out now from Tor. Don’t try to write a best-selling book. Because ...
I feel that to know this world and existence is to seek escape from it. One way is fantasy, novels where the rules of reality work in a completely different ...
Oh, it’s far more exciting, isn’t it? You get to dress up a little (well, change out of your pyjamas, at least), put on a bit of make-up, brush your ...
In an age when we’re positively inundated with literature and websites and podcasts and magazine articles on how to live your best life, hit your goals, and optimize your health, ...
Asking authors how they write is like asking cooks how they bake a cake. There's one basic recipe, but they all do it differently. What's more, each one thinks their ...
Jeremy Clarkson admits he got used to being hated long ago, yet he insists his reputation for being offensively outrageous is unjustified. Speaking at the London launch of his latest ...
The year 2018 marked a momentous change of lifestyle for my family. After 20 years of home educating our three children, the last one started college and my wife and ...
When I was asked to showcase my favourite author of the year- it was an easy decision to make. As the minimalist writer for Female First, I have tried to ...
In a world where so many of us rely on our smartphones or other devices to recall even the most basic information, it can sometime feel like a struggle to ...
Richard Hammond admits his wife Mindy will be 'a bit miffed' when she watches his latest adventure alongside his TV brothers in arms, Jeremy Clarkson and James May. The familiar ...
It’s a fact… 92% of all new year’s resolutions fail! Yet how many times have we created an intention to lose weight, go to the gym, meditate daily, learn Spanish, ...
Do you want to start being proactive about your goals? If your goal is clear and focused, and you maintain a positive attitude, you can make it easier on yourself ...
I played myself in a 2019 horror movie. Back in the mists of time, I spent the 90s as a rock journalist, who jetted around the planet interviewing people who ...
In 1964, having graduated from Craiglockhart Teacher Training College – with distinction, I wrote to Stoneridge Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland asking if there was a possibility ...
I’m a real-life psychologist. My day job is not as exciting as Dr Augusta Bloom’s but I do love it. I work as an occupational psychologist helping people to improve ...
- It starts with the tree! I love Christmas trees and how their smell fills the house. It is one of my favourite smells and is what Christmas is all ...
Would you guess that the book we wrote titled, Unpregnant, is actually a love story? No, not one you’d find in the romance section, filled with roses and candlelight (though ...
Jeremy Clarkson has joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson in casting doubts over the future of the BBC license fee, after insisting the corporation will need to become a streaming service in ...
It takes me hours to get to sleep every night. My brain never stops working. It is constantly churning out new ideas, processing old thoughts, overanalysing everything… it’s frustrating. When ...