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Catch up on everything that happened at our latest Writing Hour on Twitter. We talked biggest critics, unlikeable characters an more.

It's been a while since our last episode of "Reading Between The Lines", our story podcast. But don't worry, there's one in the pipeline!

In the next instalment of our Behind The Scenes series, Fiction Team's Abbie gives us a glimpse into a typical week for her . . .

Behind The Scenes With Illustrations Ed Manon By This week’s behind the scenes is about illustrations! Illustration is a big part of the magazine. Each story must be paired with a striking artwork, along with all covers of our Weekly, Special, Annual issues and Pocket Novels. There are also occasional projects, such as greeting cards, jigsaws, or newsletter illustrations. In terms of numbers, that’s a little under 900 illustrations a year. Luckily, as you already know, we have a brilliant team of illustrators, whose talents makes my job easier as I can always trust their ability to brin...

Like a lot of workplaces, the “Friend” office runs a Secret Santa every Christmas. When we were all still in the office, this involved picking a colleague’s name out of a hat, and heading off into town to pick them up a gift. The gifts would go under the office tree until Christmas Eve, when we’d get together to open them before heading off for lunch. It was exciting! Photograph courtesy of “The People’s Friend” A little different But that didn’t stop us! Fiction team’s Abbie took on the administration this year, using drawnames.co.uk to randomly assign us all people to buy...