Today we have a special treat for you: an interview with Neil Lancaster, author of Going Dark, his debut novel which hits the shelves in just over a week’s time, on 17 April 2019. Neil is a fantastic guy who has led a hugely interesting life, with many of his experiences influencing Going Dark, a […]
To celebrate the imminent release of Neil Lancaster’s debut crime thriller, Going Dark, we thought we’d share our top 7 tips on how to write a great crime thriller. The crime thriller genre is complex and we’re clearly not going to do full justice to it in one single blog post. There are some great […]
To celebrate the launch of Beyond by Georgia Springate, we are giving one lucky reader the chance to win a copy of the paperback – signed by the author herself! To stand a chance of winning this amazingly exclusive prize, all you have to do is answer the HUGELY tricky question below, enter your email […]
The Burning Chair team were at the London Book Fair this week. And what an interesting time we all had. There were some great talks and debates and some interesting stands from all across the industry and around the globe. After much discussion, we think we can boil down what we learnt this week into […]
A couple of blog posts ago we were overjoyed to interview Georgia Springate about her debut novel, Beyond, which is released on the 1st March. Georgia was such a great sport and interviewee that she gladly agreed to come back and submit herself to our questioning once again – this time talking about what inspired […]
One of the great things about working at Burning Chair is that we get to meet lots of talented and interesting people. In this week’s podcast we bring you an interview with one of those supremely talented people. After a successful career in the publishing industry, Simon Bewick now focuses on being an author, prolific […]
OK, we’re calling it. Our NaNoWriMo 2018 dream is officially dead. We started out with such high hopes: back on that heady, dreamy morning of 1 November. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the fates were perfectly aligned. We were going to do it. We would achieve something great. Yes, along with thousands […]
As you know, here at Burning Chair we love the written word as much as we love, well… pretty much anything at all. However, sometimes there’s just no substitute for seeing and hearing someone. And we know that some of you (poor misguided souls that you are…) have been itching to find out what we […]
This week we have a guest blog from our friends over at Descript, which is the world’s first audio processor: a toolkit of superpowers for people who work with voice audio! If you’re a writer — of books, essays, scripts, blog posts, whatever — you’ll be familiar with the phenomenon: the blank screen, a looming deadline, and a […]
(NB: All efforts have been made to remove spoilers) Do you remember when zombies weren’t cool? No, me neither. The past few years have seen a veritable smorgasbord of rotting corpses on our screens. I would arm-wrestle my own Grandmother (don’t worry, she loves it) to defend Shaun of the Dead for absolutely nailing the […]
