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I’ll be on a panel at the Bay Area Book Festival at the end of this month. The panel’s called Hidden Agendas: Cults, Corruption and Conspiracy in the Modern Thriller. It takes place on Sunday, [...]

… that I mostly agree with. From Balaji Srinivasan (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend [...]

I love research. Most writers do. We love finding out how our characters can do stuff that we don’t know how to do, like throw pots, or field-dress deer, or cut throats without getting any [...]

Audio interviews, whether for podcast or broadcast or streaming – or even just for fun – fall into three parts: before, during and after. This sounds obvious, but interviewers are [...]

There’s no way to get around this basic fact: writers today can’t just be artists; we also have to be salespeople. Back in the day, the dream scenario used to be that one wrote a [...]

Guardian Q&A with Rachel Abbott and Adam Croft on how they achieved success as self-published authors – on everything from marketing, series vs stand alone books and more. Not a new article: [...]

I’ve been listening to the back catalogue of Tim Harford‘s excellent podcast, Cautionary Tales. Episode 7, Bowie, Jazz and the Unplayable Piano is a great story about creativity and [...]

I was on the MacMillan website, looking for something that I’d written a few years ago, when I stumbled on something that for some reason I hadn’t seen before: a promotional recipe for a cocktail [...]

I will follow you and visit you,Lascivious Aurelius and wanton dancer Furius, who, from my verses, thought me to be soft-spoken, a little modest.For the pious poet himself ought to be chaste; [...]