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A Gold Medal for The Butterfly Witch

A Gold Medal for The Butterfly Witch

So this happened today! The Butterfly Witch, my era-spanning, witchy love story won a gold medal in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. I am beyond excited and I’m sure once...

A Gold Medal for The Butterfly Witch

So this happened today! The Butterfly Witch, my era-spanning, witchy love story won a gold medal in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. I am beyond excited and I’m sure once...

Find Your Own Way to Write

Find Your Own Way to Write

How I stopped hiding behind 'busy' and discovered when, where, and how I actually write best. In my last post, Maybe Writing Your Novel Can Wait, I talked about my...

Find Your Own Way to Write

How I stopped hiding behind 'busy' and discovered when, where, and how I actually write best. In my last post, Maybe Writing Your Novel Can Wait, I talked about my...

Three Lessons from my Best Writing Year

Three Lessons from my Best Writing Year

2025 was fantasy author, E. L. Williams' best writing year yet. In this article, originally published on her Writing Scared Substack newsletter, she reflects on the three lessons she's taking...

Three Lessons from my Best Writing Year

2025 was fantasy author, E. L. Williams' best writing year yet. In this article, originally published on her Writing Scared Substack newsletter, she reflects on the three lessons she's taking...

Not Yet Wintering

Not Yet Wintering

Do you feel it yet? The pull to wintering? The urge to slow down and, if not quite hibernate, at least slip into the torpor of the hedgehog, curled in...

Not Yet Wintering

Do you feel it yet? The pull to wintering? The urge to slow down and, if not quite hibernate, at least slip into the torpor of the hedgehog, curled in...

How To Help The Butterfly Witch Fly

How To Help The Butterfly Witch Fly

It's hard to believe, but two years and nine months after Gwenllian Llewellyn, cello in hand, strolled into my imagination on a cold and rainy January afternoon, The Butterfly Witch is...

How To Help The Butterfly Witch Fly

It's hard to believe, but two years and nine months after Gwenllian Llewellyn, cello in hand, strolled into my imagination on a cold and rainy January afternoon, The Butterfly Witch is...

Authors at the Armouries

Authors at the Armouries

I am absolutely thrilled to be a signing author at this year's Authors at the Armouries event in Leeds this October. I'll be there on the Saturday only (25th October...

Authors at the Armouries

I am absolutely thrilled to be a signing author at this year's Authors at the Armouries event in Leeds this October. I'll be there on the Saturday only (25th October...