"Readers prefer a world they can relate to." — Dave Morris

If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.

Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.

You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

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Readers prefer a world they can relate to.