EVENTS

October 13, 2026

Join author Vaseem Khan as he leads this online session for the Society of Authors, covering the essentials of writing series fiction, i.e. fiction that features returning characters and settings.

He will explore examples of brilliant series across different genres such as crime, fantasy and romance, and examine the key ingredients that make such fiction successful. The session will detail how to create narrative arcs that ‘grow’ your characters, how to develop overarching themes, and the elements of world-building that make readers consistently come back for more. He will also discuss what agents and editors are currently looking for in new series pitches.

This session is for authors currently writing or contemplating writing series or episodic fiction i.e. fiction with recurring characters and/or settings

Details and tickets here.

The exciting new cosy mystery featuring the former head of MI6’s Q Branch, Major Boothroyd, from the James Bond universe.

Dismissed from MI6’s Q Branch, where he developed weapons and field technology, Major Boothroyd (aka ‘Q’) has found a new lease of life as an amateur detective in his sleepy hometown of Wickstone-on-Water.

Fresh from successfully solving the murder of his childhood friend, Q is now hired by the police to re-examine the unsolved killing of Lawrence Noble, a tech millionaire turned online antique dealer.

Why was Noble tortured before his death? What is the significance of the circular golden object inscribed with mysterious runes found by his body?

As Q investigates, danger stalks those around him, and he soon finds himself dragged into a chilling conspiracy where past and present meet in a way he could not possibly have imagined . . .