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Book Review: That Old Devil Sin
Clementine "Q" Toledano has a lot going on. She's trying to avoid a club owner she can't help falling into bed with, keep control of her band while the trumpet player fights her for it and, simultaneously, work out how to get her best friend out of trouble with a...
Let’s Be Friends! Getting to Know Your Main Character
The main character. The centre of your story (probably), your favourite character (maybe) and the person your readers will almost certainly spend the most time with. You’ve worked out what it is that they want to achieve or obtain by the end of your story, and you’re...
Book Review: Conversations With Friends
This review contains no spoilers. Frances performs poetry with her ex-girlfriend, now best friend, Bobbi. When they meet Melissa and Nick, a glamorous and successful older couple, the emotionally distant Frances is surprised by her own reaction. Intrigued by, and then...
How to Overcome Writer’s Block: Three Strategies
It’s as frustrating as it is inevitable: sometimes you’re going to sit down in front of your laptop or notebook and the words just will not come. What is writer's block? That's tricky to answer, since it means different things to different people. For some, writer’s...
Book Review: The Fifth Season
This review is spoiler free so, whether you've read the book or not, enjoy! Everyone knows the world is going to end. Again.Nobody expects it to happen during their lifetime.But here it is. The Fifth Season is the first of a trilogy by N. K. Jemisin, set in a world...
Four Things That Made a Difference to My Mental Health
It’s mental health awareness week here in the UK, and I went back and forth on whether to share something about my own mental health struggles in honour of that. I decided in the end that I’ve gained a lot from other people’s honesty and openness, and given that this...