Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m retired, living in Bilston with my husband. I’ve always enjoyed writing but never really had the time to concentrate on it properly until I finished work. Now I like nothing better than to settle down with a cup of coffee in the afternoons and dream up new holiday disasters for my heroine Claire Virgin.
So far, I’ve written three books in the Virgin Vacation Mystery series, all set in holiday locations that I’ve enjoyed myself.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book, Virgins in Chaos, is set in in Tenerife – one of my favourite holiday destinations. The apartment block where Claire, her husband Clint and their friends Roy and Edie stay is entirely fictitious though! I was inspired by the horror stories I’d heard about people arriving at their holiday hotel to find there’s building work going on around them – how much worse would it be if there were dead bodies, too?
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think so!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read anything and everything. I’m one of those obsessive people that actually read everything in a dentist’s waiting room – even the really mean dentists who don’t have anything but a few copies of horse magazines or tooth pamphlets for their patients. I read them. I’m that sad.
Having said that, I absolutely love reading Robin Hobb, Dorothy Koomson, Nora Roberts – oooh, those Eve Dallas books! – and of course George Martins GOT entire series – amazing! (and what a let down the TV series was! Except for Kit Harington. Obviously.)
What are you working on now?
I’m thinking up plots for number four at the moment. It doesn’t have a title,- I don’t even know where it’s taking place yet! But I do have one or two ideas,
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Awesome Gang – of course!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Honestly, just keep at it. It’s all too easy to let yourself get discouraged if no-one seems interested in what you’re writing. But at the end of the day, if you enjoy it, do it. If you don’t enjoy it, you shouldn’t be doing it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t eat that donut.
Don’t eat another donut.
Don’t eat all the donuts.
Don’t buy any more donuts.
What are you reading now?
Linda Howard, Shadow Woman. Recommended by a friend, and it’s really exciting!
What’s next for you as a writer?
Honestly don’t know.
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?
George Martins Game of Thrones entire series but it only counts as one, right? (It'[s the Big Book Bundle)
The entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. (Another Big Book Bundle!)
The Talisman by Stephen King. (Love that one)
Hieros Journey by Sterling E Lanier. (Oldie but much read favourite)
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