Laurel Corona, author of Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel: What It’s Like to Write Another Book When Ten Years Ago I Swore I Wouldn’t I said I was done writing historical fiction. I originally had ...

How a Leadership Book Slowly Wrote Itself For years, I thought writing a book belonged to “other people”. Real writers. Academic people. People who knew what they were doing. Meanwhile, I was busy ...

Perrin Pring, author of the just-published novel, Cash and Gravity, asks: Why is Your Query Letter Not Working? Let’s talk about querying. If you’re a U.S. author who is unagented, that word ...

Inclusive, Climate-Safe Futures by Tanvir Bush and Sarah Bell Introduction A new project, called Sensing Climate, is coming to ...

How Murder on Lough Derg Came to Be Murder on Lough Derg grew out of the extraordinary summer of 2018, the year in which the novel is set. Ireland experienced one of its warmest and driest summers ...

Author N.R. Ashworth on writing and creating a ‘whole journey, a whole world, scenes I could already picture before we’d even rolled initiative’. I never imagined being a writer.

Timothy Ryan Day: connecting Science and Literature in my latest novel. I remember laying in the yard of our house in Hephzibah, Georgia on a crunchy bed of pine needles that were sharp when you mo… ...

Author Dwight Thompson tells us how his decision to move away from home played a major part in the writing of his new novel, My Own Dear People. V.S. Naipaul once said, “When I learnt to write I ...

Welcome to this week’s look at the Irish bestselling books. We’re over the moon to see Andrea Mara back at number one with her latest novel, Such A Nice Girl. With her recent success, seeing All Her ...

Competition deadline: 15th June 2026 The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world as long as their story is original and previously unpublished.

Two events and experiences came together to trigger the development of Blood and Water. I wish I wasn’t a cliché but I always knew I had a novel in me. At least one. I had been playing around with ...