I get asked a lot – make that all the time – how I’ve managed to make the transition to writing full-time (the holy grail) in such a short time...

And now for something completely different…. But don’t panic, there will be more Cat Connolly one day! After writing the Cat Connolly police procedural trilogy, my latest book is a...

The notion of writing under a pen name was not something I ever really considered – and so, I look back now and wonder how on earth I arrived at...

There’s a lot of stuff written about writing, writers and the writerly craft. If you’re interested you can learn how writers plot, how they do characters, how many months they...

At the end of the first week of December 2019, something quite remarkable happened. My book, Her Name Was Rose (a psychological thriller about a young woman whose life is...

I can’t remember when I wanted to be an author, but I do remember begging my parents for a correspondence course on writing fiction when I was still at school....

Details, details . . . “The devil is in the details” or so the phrase goes, and that’s something every writer should never forget. No matter where or when your...

With each new book, elements of my writing process remain the same and some don’t! There have been some alterations during the four years since writing my debut, mainly due...

Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid When you hear the word ‘cult’, what do you think about? Is it the crazy, power-hungry leader? A religious splinter? Mass orgies? Mass murder? Mass suicide?...

When did I first want to be a writer? I’m not sure I am one now! It might have been Maurice Leitch coming to speak to my class at school....