by Lucy Hounsom | October 30, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSo, this is a bit of an unusual episode. Normally, we get an author on to discuss their new book. But today we have three authors talking about a brand new non-fiction book they’re part of, and two of them are your...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 28, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPart of a murder mystery’s charm is the narrative movement from chaos to order. The natural balance of justice is overturned and it’s up to ordinary people – rather than the law – to fix it. The...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 30, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tale retellings are always popular. Fairy tales are some of the first stories we learn as children. As well as being entertaining, they are instructive. Don’t stray from the path. Don’t trust wolves, or men....
by Lucy Hounsom | March 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe live our lives burdened with responsibilities, and expectations of how we should act. Those expectations are placed on us by society, by family, and even by ourselves. However, fiction allows us a space in which...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are back for 2025! We took a hiatus during the second half of 2024 due to our lives becoming that much busier. But loving what we have built with the show over the almost 10 years we’ve been running (!) we...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 23, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA short story isn’t just a novel in miniature form. It isn’t even a shortened novella. It is a creature of its own devising. There’s only time for a snapshot of reality, and in the space of a few thousand words, you...