emily pattullo ​

With the distractions of every day life doing their best to externalise our attention away from how we feel about things, it is important...

How is it that as writers we have little trouble imagining and writing a story about others, and yet when it comes to our own life story...

Writing a novel about issues such as child trafficking and prostitution is risky, to say the least; but sometimes in order to get a point...

Women have always been seen as sex objects, there is nothing new in that, but who decided for the rest of us that our children were fair...

We're told that the Young Adult book market is thriving and probably the most competitive of all the age groups, but is it just teenagers...

I'm going to be on the radio tomorrow! Local hospital radio, that is. When I got the email asking me to be on the show, the first thing I...

My book, Ring Around Rosie, is being launched at Waterstones… ​ I never thought I’d say those words out loud. It seemed like an...

My first novel is about to be available on Amazon and I’m (I want to say crapping myself, but because this is a public blog, I’ll say…)...

I recently joined Twitter – admittedly with some apprehension – as a necessity towards getting my book and myself ‘out and about’. (There...

For an impatient person (like me), the process of establishing yourself as an author is an agonisingly slow and torturous one....

I got a Kindle for my birthday a few months ago and I’ve read the entire Hunger Games Trilogy (awesome, and thoroughly enjoyable, btw),...

I've written a book! Thank you, thank you, I know, great achievement. But that's not the half of it... what the blazes do I do now? I...