Why Short Stories Are Good For Busy Readers
With the continued growing popularity of the short story, many good collections are released each year and yet sadly the majority go unnoticed by mainstream readers.
The Best Fictional Heroes – Is Your Hero The Next Bestseller?
Heroes come and go. That’s certainly true of the fictional variety where very few linger in the mind beyond the last page of a novel. So what makes the perfect fictional hero?
Why Are We Fascinated By The Supernatural?
Whether it be a spine-tingling ghost story, the sighting of a UFO, stories of Gods and Deities, or the fascination of the occult, most of us are curious in one way or another about the supernatural.
Political Thrillers & The Secret To Writing Them!
Pitching the rhetoric at just the right point between the believable and the unbelievable compels the reader to continue, and forces them to ponder on possible political realities of the future.
Authors writing about prejudice and racism in literature
Whilst the issues of prejudice and discrimination are multi-faceted and complicated beyond belief, a key moment for me was the day I picked up ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Harper Lee implicitly drilled down the relative unfairness of human existence into my 12-year-old brain, creating a sense of outrage that has stayed with me throughout my life.
What Readers Want From Great Fantasy Fiction
The imaginary worlds and characters of fantasy fiction continue to enthral readers around the world.
Best Time Travel Novels and Hard Science Fiction
The best time travel books in fiction have certainly gone through something of a transition.
What Makes A Great Thriller
Possibly the trickiest of all writing genres, the thriller comes with high expectations, which are hard to fulfil. So what do we expect from a thriller, and why do we enjoy reading them so much?
Love Reading For Children And The Power Of Imagination
Albert Einstein said that. No doubt imagination, then, is a great thing to have if it yields such rich thinking in adulthood-But when does imagination start in the brain? And how important is reading for developing imagination young minds?
Literary Fiction Genre – Is It An Outdated Classification?
The explosion in self-publishing and the subsequent success of self-published authors has certainly turned the publishing industry on its head.