The Wishing Shelf Awards were created for authors by an author. The awards were set up by Edward Trayer who became disillusioned with the...

What makes a good sex scene for you? Long and drawn out or fast and furious? Perhaps the interesting use of accoutrements (honey, rope,...

In last week's post, I talked about finding notes from my kids, but also another set of notes that I found on the internet: notes to and...

The notes people leave or give to each other are like shining a light into the crevices and cracks of how we behave as people: Everything...

I meet with a group of friends in Edinburgh to ruminate over writing, actually write (if there is not too much gossip to be shared),...

I put The Refusal in for as many awards as I could find, expecting that the competition would be fierce and maybe I'd win something if I...

I am so thrilled to be a semi-finalist in the Indies Today 2021 book awards. Their book review for The Refusal is amazing too (see...

One of the joys of being involved in the bookish community on social media is exploring fun things to post, alongside promoting my books....

So I was scrolling down the page thinking . . . yeah, yeah, won't even have got placed. There's not even a romance section . . . there's...

One of the great joys of being on social media is all the amazing readers who get in touch. When @romance.novel.junkies (find her here)...

Readers of The Refusal have had a lot they want to talk to me about. That lift scene. Does Janus's company go down? Is Fabian guilty? And...

One of the joys of sharing The Refusal on social media has come from fans responding with their own ideas about the book, often in quite...

We got Daisy as a kitten and she was the runt of the litter. At six weeks, she was half the size she was supposed to be, having never...

One of the joys of writing is including places you love, and The Techboys Series contains a whole series of places in New York that are...

I'm delighted to announce that The Refusal is being included in a romance bookbox and I am so excited to be included with Elle Nicoll and...

Although I've written a book, probably like all authors, I'm first and foremost a reader. But I'm a very specific kind of reader - a...

When the first author copies arrived it was so exciting to hold The Refusal in my hands for the first time and see all my words in print...

I absolutely love it when people message me on instagram and ask what's going to happen next, or just to be excited, when they are part...

There's something about running in the highlands that makes for an adventure. Sometimes I trip over and injure myself like I did this...

The camera work on this video is a shocker - don't think I'm going to master booktok any time soon! (check out my account here). We...