Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I left a career in Credit Management and Litigation to become an author. I published my first novel in April 2019.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My Novel is ‘Killing The Girl’ and it was inspired by how life is different now for women compared to the 1970’s.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
For a writer I can spend many hours not writing!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
My main influences have been Daphne Du Maurier, Ruth Rendell, PJ James, Minette Walters, Fay Weldon – I could go on …
What are you working on now?
My new novel is called (at the moment) French Kiss. It’s about a woman who disappears in France.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still looking for ways that best promote my book.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice for new authors is don’t publish an amended first draft. First drafts are for the bin so bin them. Use what you learned whilst writing it and start again taking the essence and writing your ‘fit to publish novel’.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Your novel will be finished when you have perfected it to the point that you are sick of it! Then it’s time to set it on it’s journey around the world.
What are you reading now?
Murder mysteries and How to learn French.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing my second novel to the same high standard as my first novel.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A Thesaurus, French instruction, a murder mystery and a comedy.
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