Author Archives: sonderlit

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with the author of several bestselling crime novels, Catherine Ryan Howard. Catherine Ryan Howard is an award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland. Her debut novel Distress Signals came out in 2016 and was an Irish TimesContinue reading “Catherine Ryan Howard on self publishing and finding her genre”

A difficulty of writing, as with any craft, is that the world tends to focus on the early stages—draft one, the blank page, beginning. It makes sense: a first draft, an epic quest in itself, one that requires a very specific mental concentration, the humility to abandon perfection, and the pride and ambition to keepContinue reading “Ruth Atkins from Penguin Michael Joseph on How to Edit Your Novel”

We sat down with Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, arts extraordinaire and founding editor of Channel. Channel is a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective. Their goal is to provide a space for literary work that fosters re-connection with the natural world. They publish work from IrelandContinue reading “Cassia Gaden Gilmartin from Channel on Supporting Artists and the Inside Scoop on Submissions”

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with the author of debut novel and true crime commentary Death of a Bookseller. Alice Slater is a writer, editor and ex-bookseller from London. She co-hosts the literary podcast What Page Are You On?, and edited Outsiders: AContinue reading “Alice Slater on studying Creative Writing and how she fell in love with it”