Hay-On-Wye, UK – The Best Place To Take A Bookworm

Most readers would choose a place they could read all day every day and it just so happens there's a town where you can do just that. Hay-On-Wye is located just over the Wales/England border and is self-described as the world's first book town. There are over 20 bookshops to visit - which is a... Continue Reading →

Get My Spooky Short Story Collection for Free This Halloween

Young Ivy explores a mysterious building in the middle of a field and meets its ghoulish resident in “Feed the Little Children”.Lee and his friends dare each other to travel down “Creek End”, a street no adult can see.David faces deadly temptation in a parallel universe in “Mr Spectors' Circumstances have Changed”.“Effigy” tells the tale... Continue Reading →

3 Things All Writers Can Learn From… Romance

The second in my "3 Things" series about what writers can learn from various genres and today we're onto romance. I'm not much of a romance reader specifically but as you'll see romance informs a lot of books out there. 1) How to write relationships Relationships are at the heart of romance books. Romantic ones... Continue Reading →

The Oldest Bookshop in the World – Chiado Bertrand, Lisbon

You may not expect the oldest bookstore in the world to be found in Portugal. But in the Chiado Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon has a Guinness World Records certificate to prove it. The original shop opened in 1732 and has stayed open ever since, albeit moving around the city. The current shop opened in 1773,... Continue Reading →

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