This weekend I had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker and leading a masterclass on what we can learn from Charles Dickens about writi...

After blogging about Finnish Iida Turpeinen’s Beasts of the Sea last month, I’m sticking with the Nordic theme for the next book I’m writin...

Happy 2026 and welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series , in which I review books written in the twenty-first century but set (at leas...

Happy New Year! After tracking my progress via Goodreads , today, for the sixth year in a row, I’m sharing a retrospect on the books I read ...

Happy Holidays, everyone, and thank you for reading blog this year. Are you looking for a gift for a published or early career writer in you...