Before I signed a contract with Little, Brown in 2014 I was fairly quiet about my writing – talking about it only in the vaguest terms with my friends and...

When you are a child who wants to grow up to be a writer there is little you can do about it. Your friends driven by similar orientation towards music...

My adventures in writing began so many years before publication it’s scary but giving up was never an option for me. Twenty-four years ago, after the birth of my daughter,...

Inspiration can come from the strangest mix of places and my new crime novel, When The Dead Come Calling, is in some ways a strange story. Strange in the sense...

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....