From Rabbit Holes to Rifts: On portal fantasy, and why it matters (to me)
A guest post by Lisa @ Over The Effing Rainbow. This will sound familiar enough to avid readers that it may even seem ordinary, but my earliest and fondest memories of childhood are of going into my local library and…
The inspiration behind Blue Shift
I’m delighted to have Jane O’Reilly on the blog today, talking about the birth of Blue Shift the first book in her Second Species series. I can pinpoint the exact moment when the seed for Blue Shift was sown. It…
Kim Curran: What it feels like to be a UKYA author right now
Guest post by Kim Curran, as part of the Delete blog tour. If I had to answer this in a single word, I guess that word would be uncertain. There are absolutely no guarantees in YA publishing – something I…
The Helen of Troy + Mars vs the Starships…
Guest post by Christian Schoon + giveaway Hey and thanks from Zenn and her author pal for making room in your blog’s parking lot for the Under Nameless Stars tour bus. So, the starliner Helen of Troy. For the noobs…
Making the Magic of Shadowplay
Guest post by Laura Lam, author of Pantomime and Shadowplay. Writing about a book with magicians and spiritualism meant I was able to go wild with research, and I did. I read fiction, non-fiction, watched films, listened to podcasts, throwing…
A post about St. Lucia
Guest post by Dan Newman, author of The Clearing. My novel The Clearing is set in St. Lucia, and for those of an adventurous nature, I can’t recommend the place enough; it’s really worth a visit… but you have to…
How to Survive a Horror Film
Guest post by James Dawson, author of Hollow Pike and Cruel Summer. It’s nearly twenty years since the first Scream film arrived in cinemas. Since then post-modern teens in horror have been dissecting the clichés of the genre. Cruel Summer…
Red Death Saga Blog Tour
Guest post by Bethany Griffin, author of The Masque of the Red Death and The Dance of the Red Death + GIVEAWAY! I’m pretty sure that I’m ready for a desert Island scenario- as a kid I read The Swiss…
10 Things I Have Discovered About Blogging
Guest post by Matt Haig, author of The Humans and The Radleys. 1. It is fun. I don’t honestly think I would have started blogging if I hadn’t been asked by Booktrust to be their writer-in-residence, and I was a…
Dear Seventeen-Year-Old Matthew Quick
Guest post by Matthew Quick, author of Silver Linings Playbook and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. Dear Seventeen-Year-Old Matthew Quick, It’s you (me?) from the future—at thirty-nine. Yes, thirty-nine! I was only allotted two paragraphs so I can’t explain how this…
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