Life can throw you some curve balls and you either drop them or catch them and run with them. My journey into writing was particularly curvaceous but rather than catching...

Recently, my publisher Avon celebrated its 10th birthday and invited us authors to mark the milestone at a swanky ‘do’ in London’s West End (well swanky by my standards). I...

People assume that since I’m a published author with ten books under my belt and translated into over sixteen languages, that I must have wanted to be a writer from...

Most parts of my debut novel Snow Light were written while I was on the road. But let me start at the beginning. Three years ago I came back from...

Writing is a funny business in that the very thing that makes you arguably and hopefully good at it is also the thing that will prevent you from ever becoming...

“I love following up and coming writers, writers who make it,” said an aspiring author to me recently. It took me a moment to realise she was talking about me....

There’s an old writing maxim that you should always save or jot down any interesting articles or stories that you see. This was certainly true in my case. A news...

George Orwell once said, ‘Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle – like a long bout with a painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing, if one...

I began writing in 1997 while pregnant with my second child. It was something I’d had in the back of my mind for years, but never did anything about. It...

In 2010, I did what many women in their late twenties/early thirties do: I had a baby. She was actually my second baby, my first was at preschool all day,...