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I’ve been indulging in a deep dive into cosy mysteries and police procedurals, many of them independently published by their authors, rather than by established, traditional publishers. My [...]

I’ve been listening to a long and fascinating book by Naomi Klein called Doppelganger – about the confusion caused when thousands of people mistook her for another writer, also a […]

We went to the opera last week – one of those productions live-streamed from the stage of the Met Opera in Kennedy Centre, New York. It was one I wasn’t […]

Ever asked yourself  any of these questions? What exactly does a professional book editor do? How does development editing differ from copy-editing, for instance? What’s really involved [...]

This month’s flash fiction challenge was inspired by a dream Richard wrote about in his Monday Writing Motivation. The winner receives a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth £ [...]

The experiences and memories we accumulate over time are not unlike leaf mould. Year by year, just as the leaves of a million trees rain down upon the ground, so an infinite number of sensory [...]