How I Write

How I Write

The It Girl

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

The It Girl

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

The It Girl, The Lying Game

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...