As well as my books, I write articles for a wide range of magazines, print and online, genre-specialist and general, to share the things I have learned about writing and the business of being an author.

This is one of the best ways I know for repaying the debt I owe for the generous advice of writers far more eminent than me, who’ve shared sage advice, timely warnings and cautionary tales for would-be authors through their own writings.

Here’s a list of articles hopefully of use and interest, in roughly reverse chronological order, that is to say, most recent at the top. Click through to read what I had to say.

• But Don’t You Just Make It All Up?
• The Art of Writing Fantasy
• Reasons to be Cheerful
• Poacher Turned Gamekeeper?
• Lost in Translation?
• Should Science Fiction and Fantasy Be Taught In Schools?
• Caution – Construction in Progress
• Tolkien – Sinner Or Saint ?
• How to be Edited – A Personal View
• How To Be Original and Still Get Published
• Deity of Choice, Not Another Bloody Fantasy Trilogy!
• Fantasy? But that’s just rubbish about elves and dwarves and stuff…
• But it’s just fantasy, isn’t it? Escapism, nothing to do with reality…
• On the Fifth Day of our Journey
• World Building
• Three facets of fantasy writing