A novella is not an incomplete novel, it is a separate art form with its own specific demands. When my editor Delphine read my debut Six Mile ...

Buy the Book Launches a Series of Author Guides to help authors market and promote their books. Buy the Book has recently launched a series of author guides aimed at helping authors promote and ...

Being a debut author is incredible and also one of the strangest experiences of my life. The emotional rollercoaster as I’ve soared the heights of living my dream while also plummeting to new ...

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety. There’s a particular kind of pressure that comes with writing a book when you have a ...

Welcome back to the Irish bestselling books charts, where we’re delighted this week to feature a much-loved author whose new book is soaring at the top of the Top 20 with the kind of sales ...

Writers’ Week is Ireland’s first and longest running literary festival. Since 1971, writers and readers congregate in the ...

Bookselling Ireland (the Booksellers Association (BA) in Ireland) are delighted to announce the ambassadors for Independent Bookshop Week 2026, which this year marks its 20th anniversary. The ...

Competition deadline: 1st May 2026 The annual Molly Keane Creative Writing Award, run by Waterford City & County Council Arts Office, is to celebrate the rich literary life of the late Molly ...

Penny allowed herself to be gathered up carefully as the vet gently inserted the catheter into her front leg. The decline had been slow but steady since Christmas and blood tests had revealed ...

But, Really, You Should Start Next Year’s Application Today. Right Now. And This Is Why. I submitted my Arts Council Arts Grant application yesterday. I am writing this, completely sleep deprived, ...

To the Moon and Back: a novel by Eliana Ramage In 2009, I wanted to know how to write a novel. I was 18 years old, in my first year of college in New Hampshire, and I wrote about young Cherokee ...