There are thousands, if not millions, of wise words written about failure in publishing. Most of them assert that it is ‘good for a writer’. That it is character building...

Write like nobody is ever going to read it. Give yourself the freedom to explore new words, sentences and pages. Allow yourself the indulgence to delete thousands of words, the...

What sparks inspiration? Well, anything really. An item in the local newspaper, an overheard conversation on the daily commute, a trip to a museum or an art gallery, a holiday...

I am endlessly fascinated when authors describe their writing process. This is partly because I’m just plain nosy, but also because I’m probably looking for validation that I’m ‘doing it...

From Dealing with the Dead to Hatching Happy-Ever-Afters  It feels like I have been a writer for as long as I can remember and, in some ways, that’s true. I...

I’d written seventeen novels when I started Country Lovers, mostly big fat juicy romps with lots going on. You’d think I should know my trade by now: protagonists, check, antagonists,...

Every writer dreams of that first phone call – you know the one, where a dream publisher rings you up and wants to offer squillions for that darling manuscript you’ve...

Co-writing a Transatlantic Novel – The Truth! Co-writing a novel 6,456 miles apart with an eight-hour time difference should have its challenges, right? Surprisingly . . . not so much....

Like every other writer I know, I’m regularly asked if I draw plots or characters from real life. It’s not an easy question to answer, at least not without sounding...

Seven Letters is my 14th novel and possibly the most moving. The book was originally inspired by a court case I read about a few years ago. The story of...