Like many writers’ festivals in 2020, the Williamstown Literary Festival this year scaled back to an online-only event with a streamlined...

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Writing fiction is not the daydreamer’s paradise that films and TV let you believe. It’s hard...

One year ago today, on 1 November 2018, my first novel came out. Nothing much happened on the actual day but, symbolically, it was moment...

I LOVE getting feedback about my work. It’s one of two of my favourite parts of the writing process (the other is the rush of getting a B...

The more manuscripts I write (I’m up to my seventh), the more I refine my process. Not that it’s a planned thing. The process is dictated...

I’m one of those writers who reckons you can’t write the first sentence of a novel until you know the last. The first line, I think, shou...

I woke up this morning thinking,** as I often do, that I must get back to work on my current manuscript-in-progress. It’s been far too lo...

This Thing of Darkness is told from the point of view of an 18-year-old girl – Riley Benjamin. I am not an 18-year-old girl, I have never...

When I first started writing fiction, I went to an author talk given by thriller and YA author James Phelan. During the talk, he explaine...

This Thing of Darkness is my first YA novel. Before this, I’d written three adult crime fiction manuscripts that remain unpublished. The ...