Danny Singer, author of Nothing Left to Lose, on Writing A Great Summer Thriller: Make Them Wish They Were James Bond . . . The sky is a deep cobalt blue, and the heat is still bearable. You congratulate yourself for beating the Germans to the loungers at the shady end of the pool while at the same time regretting the breakfast indulgence of congealed scrambled eggs and mini frankfurters that are now repeating on you. The Med is shimmering in the distance and for the next wee

An enormous thank you to Holly, Laura, Giles and everyone at @stationbookstunbridgewells for a great event! A full house (despite the heat) asking interesting and intelligent questions about my novel #NothingLefttoLose under Holly's masterful and kind compering. A great evening!

My own journey into serious writing began by accident. In March 2014, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 dominated the news. The detail that lodged in my mind was the satellite "pings" showing the plane had continued flying for over seven hours after vanishing from radar. I couldn't stop thinking about those long hours. What happened on board? How would two hundred people behave if they knew they were flying toward certain death? Would they pray? Panic? Revol

Danny recently joined Talk Radio Europe's The Book Show for an interview with Hannah Murray about his debut novel Nothing Left to Lose. Listen to the full conversation below.

This is an article published of Friday the 5th of June (2026) covering an interview with Sussex World, the umbrella press organisation for all local publications in East and West Sussex (UK). This includes my local papers: Battle & Bexhill Observer and Hastings, St Leonards & Rye Observer.

I recently came across John Yorke's Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them and found it one of the more compelling books on storytelling and structure I've read. Unlike hundreds of other books on story structure, Yorke doesn't just tell you how stories work; he asks why, which is a much more interesting question. I gave a short presentation on the book's key ideas, linked below. It covers the building blocks of narrative: structure, character, theme, and the mi

Over the past five years. I have taken four different courses going from complete beginner to publication. There are many different course available (Jericho Writers, Curtis Brown, etc.), but these are the ones I chose to take part in. The Faber Academy/ Professional Writing Academy (https://www.profwritingacademy.com/) Getting Started - Beginners' Fiction (8 weekly sessions) Writing a Novel (13 sessions over 30 weeks = approx. 7 months) Finish Your Draft (10 sessions over 10