Sisters, Sisters

Sisters, Sisters

sisters, sisters If there’s one thing I’m an absolute sucker for, it’s books and films about sister, and the unique relationship they share. From Little Women to Goblin Market, from Meet Me in St Louis to White Christmas, I love tales of sisters...
So What’s a Pen Tester

So What’s a Pen Tester

what’s a pen tester “So what’s a pen tester?” That’s a question I’ve got used to answering a lot over the last year, while writing Zero Days, and I’m guessing it’s a question that’s going to come up a fair bit more...
How I Write

How I Write

How I Write… …or rather, how I wrote The It Girl One of the questions I get asked most at events and talks is how I write – how I plot, how I come up with ideas, what an average writing day looks like. The truth is that it varies from book to book. Not so...
Writing a World You Don’t Know

Writing a World You Don’t Know

Writing a world you don’t know You’ve probably heard the writing advice “Write what you know.” It’s one of the first maxims handed out to would-be novelists. And there’s a seductive logic to it – if you’re writing a world you know intimately, you can immediately...
Dark Academia

Dark Academia

DARK ACADEMIA A closed community. Passionate friendships. The pressure-cooker stress of academic success… or failure. It’s no wonder that boarding schools and universities make some of the best settings for murder – in fact it’s surprising to me that there aren’t more...