Getting into (someone else’s) character

We know these faces from films, but what actually inspired the books’ authors?

Those brilliant ideas for stories that mysteriously bubble up from somewhere deep in the subconscious to wake an author in the middle of the night, and get them groping for the notebook or phone they

When you think of fantasy fiction, one of the first words that comes to mind might well be ‘epic’. The genre often features tales that are vast in scope and size, spreading across multiple volumes – w

DIGGING UP THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MAN WHO CLAIMED HE MURDERED DOZENS OF PEOPLE

GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR JO NESBO TELLS CRIME MONTHLY WHAT INFLUENCES HIS WRITING

Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame, was famously easily distracted, not to say a little work shy. He is supposed to have said, ‘I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they m