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THE FIVE QUESTION INTERVIEW: MARK NEWTON
It’s publication week for the last two books in Mark Charan Newton’s Legends of the Red Sun series. We therefore thought we’d ask him a few questions on an assortment of things relating to his novels...
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FREE EXTRACT AND FIVE QUESTION INTERVIEW: ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY
This month, we publish not only The Air War, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s eagerly-awaited next instalment in the Shadows of the Apt series, but fabulous new reissues of his Blood of the Mantis and Salute the...
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JEFF NOON: ON EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING
With our anniversary edition of Jeff Noon’s extraordinary Vurt out next month, I wanted to post up something in advance to whet appetites. If it’s not enough that this edition contains a foreword by...
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WRITING ROUTINES: WORD COUNTING AND OTHER HABITS
When I started out I didn’t have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over the weekends or in the evening when I wasn’t too knackered, watching TV, reading a book, or up...
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THE MILFORD WRITERS’ CONFERENCE: PAST AND FUTURE
Each year an ever-changing group of up to fifteen published writers of fantasy and science fiction get together for one special week of intensive critiquing of works-in-progress. There are no leaders...
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WHEN TO GIVE UP AND WHEN TO SUCCEED: A WRITER’S PERSPECTIVE
The first time I sold a book, I got an email from a friend saying ‘that’s it! You’ve got a book published. You can die now.’ Writing a book – or rather, writing it and then seeing it published – is the...
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A WRITER READS…
I’ve been asked recently by a friend whether my relationship with reading has changed — now that I’m officially a published author in capital letters. Yes. That’s the bare bones answer. Yes — by all...
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JULIET MUSHENS ON HOW TO APPROACH AN AGENT: DOS AND DON’TS
When I became an agent in 2011 I didn’t really know what I wanted to represent. Good books, sure; nice people, definitely, but above and beyond that I had no idea as to the genres I wanted to focus on....
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DESCRIBING CHARACTERS AND SCENES: A WRITER’S CHEAT-SHEET
“Mickie, do you remember the colour of Biggs’s eyes? Did I mention it anywhere?” There is a long silence on the other end of the phone. I’ve called my sister long distance again, to jog her memory once...
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BRIAN STAVELEY INTERVIEW – THE EMPEROR’S BLADES (plus free chapters!)
This month we published The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley, and we’ve been *delighted* by the response so far. It’s been wonderfully reviewed, fans seem so excited on twitter etc. and it’s made a...
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