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Lucy Waverley - author of NOBLE BEASTS - wearing a midge hat on site in Glen Feshie. When it comes to character and setting in fiction, small things make a big difference. For me, this is particularly the case with historical fiction, in which candid and incidental details are invaluable both in grounding a reader in the past from a sensory point of view, and also in showing how characters’ experience was relatable but not different from ours. In addition, as a reader, I find

Katie Huttlestone - author of 'A Healthy Appetite' - shares a love letter to the exhausted writer. My debut novel is well on its way to arriving in the world and I’ve never felt more exhausted. It’s frustrating really. At a time I should be jumping for joy I’m in bed by 8pm, willing myself to engage online and write more and better, all while teaching and attending my hospital appointments. Every one of us writers have something that zaps our energy away from the page. If it

How to get published. A step by step insight into the steps one writer took to get published.