Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Sales of romantic fiction continue to boom, but with the genre often accused of being formulaic, are its authors at risk of being replaced by book-writing chatbots?

Few things in life excite me more than doing research for a new novel. For me, it is the phase of the book-writing-process where new ideas manifest themselves, where rabbit holes are explored, and new discoveries are made.  Read more

If you had asked me to define an 'influencer' a few years ago, chances are I would have described someone, most likely female identifying, who created beauty, fashion, wellness and lifestyle content on behalf of brands and businesses.  Read more

With book banning and legislative attacks on the freedom to read continuing to surge across the country, the American Library Association announced today that it tracked a stunning 1,269 "demands to censor library books and resources" in 2022, the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago, and nearly double the reco  Read more

Up until now, my career as a published author has been in three stages or acts. In the first phase, I was published by traditional publishing houses, from Cambridge University PressPublishing business of the University of Cambridge; granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534 world's oldest publishing house; second largest university press in world; (http://uk.cambridge.org/aboutus/infoforauthors/electronic.htm) tells you how to submit manuscripts electronically, but only deals with non-fiction. (my academic works) to HarperCollins (my more popular non-fiction works). In the second phase, my books were published by an independent publisher who offered a hybrid model.  Read more