Author Phil Taylor tells how wanting to write a book he’d have loved to read as an 11-year-old inspired him to pen a children’s novel – and why it took him ten years to complete… [...]

As participants in Channel 4 documentary Skint claim they were ‘set up’ to look worse than they are, we look behind the scenes of the world of documentary makers… [...]

Shows about hoarding. BBC and Channel 4 have both made shows about extreme hoarders … we look at BBC Britain’s Biggest Hoarders and Channel 4′s The Hoarder Next door. But which is best? [...]

Single mum Jack Monroe’s blog posts about how she fed her family on just £10 a week have turned into a book deal with publishing giant Penguin. [...]

Retweeting news other than your own, can get you more followers on Twitter… [...]

The Fast Diet is selling newspapers and magazines – but now the first warnings that it might not be as good as it says – are coming to light… [...]

The Cake Store tell how making cakes for celebrities has raised their profile and given them free publicity… [...]

As more newspaper websites bring in paywalls, the wider ramifications are that many fashion, health and celebrity blogs which thrive on simply sharing or (illegally) rehashing content from these newspaper websites, could struggle to survive… [...]

Put the latest trend of knitting with the fact that a Royal baby is due in July and what do you get – well a knit your own Royal baby of course! [...]