Author Interviews

Superheroes are fun to watch, but the love interests are perhaps more interesting. Helen Comerford chats writing The Love Interest.

Aliya Ali-Afzal on how movies and real life inspired The Big Day, a book about a bride fighting her mother on how the wedding should look.

"The country of my youth is a time well lost."

"I view romance novels as a safe space to explore darker and more difficult topics with the comfort of a guaranteed HEA."

"I didn’t meet the love of my life – but I always held onto it as an idea!"

"I wanted to remind myself of the power we all have to rewrite our happy endings."

To celebrate the release of The Temptation of Magic, Megan Scott is here to chat why YA has such a broad appeal.

"These stories are hopeful, joyful, steamy, emotionally tender, and compassionate, care taken to ensure they are nuanced, authentic, and positive in their representation"

"I mean, a mysterious, mist-shrouded isle of magic ruled by powerful women? How could you not want to write about that?"

To celebrate her debut novel, When We Were Silent, Fiona McPhillips shares with us her top 5 contemporary Irish writers.

Forget Greek myth retellings - Arthurian legend retellings might be our new favourite thing, especially after reading Morgan is My Name.

"I'd always wanted to write about teenagers who look and sound like me"

"Every brain and every body is deserving of love exactly as it is."

Taran Matharu is back with his adult fantasy debut, Dragon Rider, and he is here to teach us all the subgenres of fantasy.

Sharada Keats chats why she prefers grey characters and how her background in economics helps the worldbuilding in These Stolen Lives.