Latest Episodes
Episode 92 - A home and a market for your story. Navigating your way around trope and genre
What genre does your story fit into? And how can you use the tropes of that genre to make your story fresh, original, and...
Episode 91 - Stay on target! How to write a great action scene.
For this episode I am again joined by Jessi Rita Hoffman (jessiritahoffman.com). Jessi is a former publishing house editor-in-chief and award-winning magazine editor now...
Episode 90 - Let the romance do the talking! Writing a great love scene
I'm joined for this episode by Jessi Rita Hoffman (jessiritahoffman.com). Jessi is a former publishing house editor-in-chief and award-winning magazine editor now offers professional...
Episode 89 - Power up your prose! Making sentences paragraphs and scenes work for you
In this episode we look at the way in which the building blocks of prose: the sentence, the paragraph, and the scene, work. We...
Episode 88 - My favourite reads of 2016 and the CWT Survey
This rather Christmassy episode is a review of my favourite reads of 2016. It's a subjective review, just stuff I've read that I liked,...
Episode 87 - Inside the publishing house - conversations with the team at Gollancz
This very special episode takes us inside one of the most iconic publishing houses in the world. The episode comprises four conversations with press,...