Why writers need estate agents!

Using character questions to help write deeper characters.

Sometimes wonderful writing creeps up on you by stealth. It may seem simplistic, perhaps overly so, or even naïve - or primitive. But...

Blog by David Holding, author of Doctors in the Dock and The Last Temptation. Harold Shipman was an English doctor who killed an...

Blog by David Holding, author of many non-fiction and local history titles for Words are Life. An interesting feature appeared in the...

Blog by David Holding, author of 'Doctors in the Dock' and 'The Trial of Dr John Bodkin Adams' Reliance on the existence of medical...

Blog by David Holding, author of “The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612". An interesting article appeared in the Lancashire press in December...

Blog by David Holding, author of “Murder in the Heather” The Winter Hill Murder of 1838". Travelling up the Winter Hill road towards...

Thirty years after Penny Taylor's death, Judith Taylor has published a book of her life, and it's a beautiful tribute to a wonderful woman.

The role a Forensic Anthropologist plays in a death investigation is crucial to the field of forensic science as a whole. ...

If you’re looking for a morally flawed, highly controversial character, with twists and turns galore to reignite your love of the genre...

Read me another silly poem, grandma. 50 years tried and tested! Available at our store.

Eleanor Duvivier's novel of Greek mythology, marathons and magic is now awailable as both ebook and paperback. It's a fantastic and really e

Author Eleanor Duvivier answers five questions about her new book 'Helios Sphere' and reveals the mix of influences that ran this book toget

Do other professions have similar issues to writers’ block? Is there such a thing as Doctors’ Dread? Opticians’ Obstruction? Grocers’ Groan

Perfection. That’s what she was, and I was sure that today would work out just the way I’d planned.

Q1: Hi Hannah, good to have this opportunity to speak to you… First of all, I was wondering where the idea for ‘Bound’ came from. Perhaps yo

The first thing you notice is that it is a very attractive book with a simple but well-designed and effective cover. This really does the co

A: This book is about hoarding and nastiness as well as being about family and relationships. It's an obvious question, but why on earth wo

G: My first question for you is a very simple one, and you must get sick of answering it. Why would anyone want to write? It