As a reader, I have always had one foot firmly in the thriller and mystery genre. I think my earliest conscious foray into mystery novels was when I picked up my first Patricia Cornwell novel – ‘Postmortem’. Personally, I [...]
Andrea Bramhall is an award-wining author whose adrenaline-charged lesbian romance novel, Rock and a Hard Place has just been translated into German for a whole new group of excited readers. Andrea sat down to answer a few questions about [...]
Show me the romance It is a truth universally acknowledged that in publishing, romance is where the money is. Readers across time and space love a good romance, whether it’s a classic like “Romeo and Juliet” or something a little naughtier in [...]
The heroine usually becomes clear in my head right from the start of a story. It’s easy to focus on them, creating characters we’ll love, in pursuit of their happily ever after. But what about the characters we love [...]
When I told an acquaintance that I’m organizing a Facebook group Q&A featuring books about asexual characters for Asexual Awareness Week, she asked, “Asexual Awareness Week? Why do we need a week for that?” I admit I was speechless [...]
Jess Lea, author of the charming small-town mystery novel, A Curious Woman, delves into what makes a good mystery. As a kid, one of my favourite movies was The Big Sleep (1946), a black-and-white thriller starring Humphrey Bogart and [...]
Defining Tropes Indelicates.com states: ‘The closest two definitions [of ‘trope’] I can attempt are: 1. Anything at all which has been in at least two fictions and 2. A Cliché.’ The writer—Simon Indelicate, aptly named—explicitly states that we should [...]
She was a nun. She was also tall, stern, brilliant, noble, and above all else–cold. At least, on the surface. But as my twelve-year-old self continued to watch Rosalind Russell’s incredible performance as Mother Superior in The Trouble With [...]
When Ylva asked me if I’d do a guest blog for Pride month talking about my experiences as a bisexual woman, I was thrilled they’d thought of me. It only took half a second before I knew I couldn’t [...]
“I’m genuinely big, large, plus size, way past plump or chubby.” I wonder sometimes if people assume I can’t see or hear them, when they’re watching me in a restaurant or when I walk past them at the train [...]