Congratulations to Liesel Schwarz on the release of A Clockwork Heart the second book in her Steampunk Trilogy, The Chronicles of Light and Shadow. Congratulations to Morad Zaffron on the publication of his
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In this blog, we look at how tone shapes stories and novels, why it matters, and how to use it in your own work.
A cozy horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror. In this post, we explore what a cozy horror is, with examples. We also give
Everybody enjoys a good parody, but they’re extremely hard to write! In this post, we’ll look at what parody is and give a few tips
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In this post we look at bestselling fiction genres and top-selling books from 2025 and which book genre you should be writing in 2026.
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Time travel is the concept of traveling into the past or the future — usually in fiction. In this post we cover the rules for
