Connie Jessop has always wanted to write books.  She was just waiting for a “big idea”, an original concept. That came in the form of a picture book called Alex...

Many people ask where I get my characters from.  The funny thing is, I do not base them on real people or create them as people who would make a...

When I was twenty, I abandoned my full-time job as an admin assistant in a central heating company to become a full-time writer. Yes, I was a foolish dreamer. But...

Writing this book was an amazing journey and a transformative experience. I had to move abroad and venture out into the world to with connect my deepest core wounds on...

You never know what will happen when you write a book. I wrote the book The Actor to celebrate the life and work of my grandfather, Ira Allen. Ira was...

I live like a recluse. Few visitors come to the house to see me, except the delicious friends of my mother’s, and stalwarts of my father, comrades from the old...

Faith conquers all. At least that’s what a lot of the fiction from the past has told us. Vampires will burn at the touch of holy water, and recoil at...

I am a working mother with two children. At times, like every other working mother, I’ve felt exhausted with the reality of just making it through the day. Weary from...

“People busy with everyday lives want to escape to a world surrounded by magic.” Before turning to writing, I was fond of photography. Our family had relocated to a small...

In my early days as a writer I looked for the easy way to write a story—prefabricated plots, following a rigid outline—and read all the writer magazines that said do...