. . . not me! You may have heard that my book Where the Story Starts was lucky enough to be shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist Association’s Contemporary Romantic Novel of 2020. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I heard. I don’t really think of myself as a romantic novelist but my book does contains three…
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This week I started writing my seventh novel for my publishers, Lake Union Publishing. . . and I would describe my current professional state as anxious. You would think that I’d have got the hang of this by now. After all, this will be the fourteenth book that I have penned in the last ten years, and whilst I would…
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You know what it’s like, I’m sure. You do your best work, take a step back and admire what you’ve achieved. You might even allow yourself a smug moment of pride in a job well done.
It doesn’t matter how much I want to go to a party. I will always end up leaving early.
Almost exactly one year ago I decided to stop dyeing my hair. This is how it’s going so far. You can see from the photos of me across the rest of this site that previously my hair was dyed to a rich conker-brown which was an approximation of how I looked back when my skin was smooth and my hair…
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