I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson Originally published: September 16, 2014 ISBN-10: 0142425761 ISBN-13: 978-0142425763 Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does …
Writer’s block is the woooorrrrrrsssstttt. If you have ever sat down to do some writing and found yourself just sitting and staring at an empty screen or a blank notebook page, you know what I’m talking about. Sometimes I describe it to my husband by saying “there’s just no words in my brain”. For someone …
One of the biggest problems that many writers struggle with is finding inspiration for their stories. We’ve all sat, with growing anxiety, staring at the empty white screen on our computers or (if you’re old school like me) the pristine but empty white pages of your notebooks. Where does inspiration come from? Throughout my writing …
Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres. Reading stories about characters living through important periods in history can provide a truly unique perspective on how people actually experienced that era, in ways that go beyond the tried-and-tested stories of history’s “main characters”. A great example of this is The Women in the Castle. …