Spoiler: real life makes it pretty impossible to do what you love — At the moment, I wake up every day and tell myself this is the day I will write. But then the weight of the day pulls me so far under that once I get home, the will to write is no longer even keeping me afloat. …

#1 You never get over it completely — I can still remember the day that I found out my brother had passed away very clearly. It was valentine's day in 2020. I’d just started a new job at a cafe, and we were selling heart-shaped cookies filled with jam in the middle. The news was full to the…

These are bound to get your heart racing within the first few pages — I never used to be particularly fond of thrillers as I usually favour longer, more drawn out, literary reads. But these days, I need something I can easily breeze through due to having a tight schedule that lends me to feeling exhausted most days. …

Because for some, it may never be achievable — Every year since I was around twelve or thirteen, I have dreaded the return of spring after a long, dark winter. As soon as the sun feels warm on my skin, I begin to dread the long summer days that stretch out before me. …

Simply mentioning it induces a cacophony of emotions — Sometimes you can love a book so much that you don't want to let it go. It can feel dangerous to draw it to attention. …

If so, here are five books you should try next — Once you’ve worked your way through an author’s category of books, it can be hard to know what to read next. It’s incredibly frustrating when that author has only written a handful of books, and you’re on edge for months or even years, waiting for their next novel. Luckily, you…

We can criticise it all we like, but this app is helping to create a new generation of readers — If I open up TikTok now, it will tell me that #BookTok has over 45.5 billion views. That’s a lot of watching videos about books. …

The benefits of this *free* tool shouldn’t be underestimated — Despite making some steady progress in 2021, I went a good six months without writing any more of my novel. …

Rule 1: Accept it will take you longer — I like big books, and I cannot lie. That may be slightly cheesy, but it had to be said. If you know me and have followed my book content for a while, you’ll know I love a chunky read far more than a book I can breeze through. For me…