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Extensive and comprehensive interview with the Scottish novelist and poet Jim Murdoch wherein he discusses his inspirations, his writing process, his books, their characters and the fact that, despite being a Scot, he never tasted haggis until he was a grown man.

"Writers don't have lives. They have ongoing research. Every day is a work in progress. Nothing's sacrosanct. No one's exempt. You can't hand them a note from your mother to leave you alone. It doesn't work like that." - Scottish novelist, Jim Murdoch, talks about writing his first two novels, now available as a single ebook, and explains why his target audience is himself.

Borders UK does regular podcasts, with interviews with bestselling authors, and general writing news. Also includes the music business.

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Huge resource of writing articles, resource links, author interviews, news and views. Definately bookmark and add to your RSS feed. Home to the Internet Writing Journal.

The Penguin Podcast is a longrunning podcast from Penguin.co.uk, featuring book extracts, author interviews and features. Fortnightly

Lifehack Live - on hiatus, but the podcast archives found here contain some interviews with authors, creativity and productivity experts.

Roger C Parker's Writing Coaches Services, and resources. A membership subscription gives you access to interviews, resources, mind mapping how-tos, templates, forums, newsletters and tips, video content and webinars.

A first-time author, a virtual unknown, can have his book rapidly climb to the top of just about every best-seller list. But that's what Timothy Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek did in 2007, and the way he did it was just as remarkable as what he achieved. Here, the Write to Done blog interviews Tim on his book.

KCRW's Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt features author interviews.

Writers On Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett - numerous interviews with writers in a large archival series.There is a live stream which takes you to KUCI 88.9FM broadcasts, and an archive list of the audios.

Sydney Writers Centre podcasts - interviews with authors etc

Writers Voice, by Francesca Rheannon - interviews with authors, screenwriters, etc. Readings, commentary and tips for writing and publishing.

Husband-and-wife team Alan and Rebecca Lickiss cover fiction techniques, interview fellow authors, and provide writing exercises.

The Writing Show by author Paula Berinstein tackles writing tips, interviews with writers, publishers, editors, agents, etc. There are several "threads" of shows including ongoing "reality show" series tracking beginning writers through the process of submitting and revising their work for publication, a "getting published" thread and others also.

Borders UK does videocasts at Borders TV. Author interviews, readings, writing and music news.

Anybody with a basic education can write, but not everyone can write effectively. And with the every-increasing need for online content, effective writing has never been more important.

ane Green. Writer. Londoner transplanted to America 21 years ago. Mother of six. Former art student. Author of 21 novels and one cookbook. Mostly tired. When did you first WANT to write a book? When Freya North wrote Sally and I thought, hang on, I could do that too. I was a journalist on the daily express at the time, and had read Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and realized no-one was doing this for women. Little did I know that Helen Fielding was in her flat a mile away crafting Bridget Jones's Diary. When did you take a step to start writing? I was already a journalist. Nick Lloyd left as editor of the express, and the new editor had me writing about giraffes instead of relationships. It was clearly time to make a change. I very stupidly left my job, and gave myself three months to write a book AND get a publishing deal. Miraculously, there was a bidding war for my first book, about two days before that time period was up. How long did it take you to complete your first book from the first idea to release? I think a year. How long did it take you to complete your latest book from the first idea to release? About three years, but it is historical fiction, set in the sixties in London and Marrakech, and required intensive research, including moving back to London for a bit. Read more.....