I’ve written three novels from the perspective of spies. In these books we get inside the spies’ heads, and we see normal people at a kind of distance – as if spies are separate from our ...

What Actually Happens When a Writer Decides to Apply for Funding. Day by Day. Spreadsheet by Spreadsheet. There is a version of this story where I sat down at my desk in early March, opened the ...

Eason Research Reveals 80% of Families Are Moderate or Avid Readers, Even Amid Digital Distractions. Eason-commissioned Amárach research finds reading ...

How to Write a Sports Romance Sports Romance is currently one of the most rapidly growing genres, with even more niche sports finding their place in books on shelves. From writing two of my own F1 ...

Bookouture are launching PageOne, a new online writing academy focused on commercial fiction, from the publisher behind mass-market hits such as The Housemaid and Phantasma, and home of repeat ...

An Post Irish Book Awards celebrates 20 year anniversary by unveiling list featuring 60 of the best fiction, non-fiction and children’s category winners over the past two decades. The An Post ...

When it comes to writing I always think about the quote: “is it better to speak or to die?“. I was shy at first, writing in secret and not telling anyone. Ashamed of my thoughts. “What if no ...

A novella is not an incomplete novel, it is a separate art form with its own specific demands. When my editor Delphine read my debut Six Mile ...

Buy the Book Launches a Series of Author Guides to help authors market and promote their books. Buy the Book has recently launched a series of author guides aimed at helping authors promote and ...

In Conversation with Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Niamh McCann, and Gerard Smyth Join us on Sat 11 April at 2:30pm for a special In Conversation event with Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Niamh McCann, hosted ...

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety. There’s a particular kind of pressure that comes with writing a book when you have a ...

Being a debut author is incredible and also one of the strangest experiences of my life. The emotional rollercoaster as I’ve soared the heights of living my dream while also plummeting to new ...