novels

Litopians! Here are seventeen publishers accepting dark fiction, horror, urban fantasy, military horror, and anything that goes bump in the night - including vampires. None require an agent, and all are traditional publishers. Some of these publishers have been in business for a long time and...

Hello everyone My name is Chris and I am brand new to Litopia. I am a keen writer, yet to be published or represented - I have worked in the film and TV industry as an Assistant Director for 15 years and although I love my job my burning desire is to focus more on my writing. I have written a...

...and got away with it,' says Kashuo Ishiguro in this interview in The Paris Review If it's true, is that in any way a problem. Is it lazy or cheating or is it as some level, artistically and organically inevitable whether or not the writer is conscious of doing it? The writer's lens, the...

Perhaps we really don't serve the Muse by wondering who is going to publish our novel, who is going to read it, or like it, and what the reader might think about us, the writer, as a person? Cream rises to the top, and scum can form there too, but a compelling story should be able to find a...

"I think there’s a way in which all novels aspire to a kind of perpetual present tense. This is why the ones we love are rereadable: they will always deliver their nowness. Perhaps all novelists, while they may want to do many things in their work and while they resolutely embark on the long...