Author: Hanna Delaney
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Retellings and reimaginings of classic tales have seen a resurgence in recent years, with beloved plots retold in fresh settings or favourite characters given a new light. Whether you’re retelling or reimagining, all these stories revolve around the age-old question: “What if?” And while the two types of stories are related, there are some key…
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Five things Angela Carter taught me about horror.
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The things Anne Rice taught me about horror.
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The truth about indie publishing. Here are some classic myths people love to perpetuate about self-publishing (indie publishing) and traditional publishing. Which ones have you heard before?
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Oceanus is a science fiction mystery novel and when I was writing it, I drew inspiration from many sources, many of them not very obvious based on the blurb alone. A starship drifts, its crew gone. The planet it orbits has no name. Survivors are separated on the surface. Exhausted. Hunted. Lost. The longer they stay,…
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Review of this feral, familiar tale of motherhood and transformation.
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Inspired by classic Egyptian horror stories such as Lot 249 and The Ring Of Thoth, I published The Shade In The Sands And Other Stories last year. It is a collection of short Gothic stories centred around the historical phenomenon of Victorian and Edwardian Egyptomania. You can read a sample of The Shade In The…
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‘nothing that is human is alien to me’. Every book, except I suppose for the most utterly trashiest, has something you can learn from, even if it’s just what you don’t want to do. Great writing starts with great reading, and great reading starts with the Melville-based canon and then branches out, forward and backward,…
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A British character is drinking coffee in your Edwardian novel? It’s not as unrealistic as you think.
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Six things I wish I’d known before publishing my first book. If you’re writing your debut novel, you might find these tips useful.
