Author Interviews

Laura Wood, known for her YA historical fiction, is here to chat her adult debut, Under Your Spell, a heartwarming and fun rom-com.

"For a YA audience intimacy is much more about feelings versus physical sensation, so I had to make that distinction deliberately as I wrote."

"I did a lot of editing and rewriting around her feelings, trying to get it just right."

"Comedy is so, so important, and we just don’t talk about that often enough"

"There’s just something about a crotchety fallen god, who hates everything but coffee, that speaks to my soul."

Freddie Kölsch on the inspiration behind the title Now, Conjurers and including references from the 90s in her debut.

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?"