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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Josa Young to my blog. Josa was born in Kent, England. She couldn’t read until she was seven due to spending all her time outside, and then proceeded to devour libraries of novels when forced to come indoors to be educated. She studied English Literature at Cambridge, and had a…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Amanda Sington-Williams to my blog. Amanda lives in Brighton and writes short stories and novels. Her inspiration comes from travelling and other authors such as Emily Barr, Ian McEwan and Margaret Attwood. She comes from a family of writers. Her cousin, Derrick Sington was renowned for his post war non-fiction work,…
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When we produced Outside the Box: Women Writing Women, we asked readers to take a risk. To step outside their comfort zones and try something new. An author or a genre they hadn’t experimented with in the past. This was no small ask. As Will Gompertz, arts editor for the BBC pointed out earlier this…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Molly Gambiza to my blog. As a young girl in Uganda, Molly knew she wanted to see the world so, when an opportunity arose to work as a nanny in England, she jumped at the chance. She arrived in the United Kingdom speaking only a little English and taught herself…
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Recently I have collaborated with six other authors to produce a seven-novel limited edition boxset, Outside the Box: Women Writing Women. Two months into the three months of its availability, I was keen to catch up with Triskele Books and compare notes about their new release, A Time & A Place Boxset: Boxset from Triskele Books….
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Sharon Black to my blog. Sharon grew up in Dublin. She studied history and politics at University College Dublin and then did post-graduate in journalism at Dublin City University. She has worked for national newspapers, including The Evening Herald and The Irish Examiner.  She had short stories published in U…
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This is a very different type of interview for me. It is the first time that I have approached an author as a fan. I was absolutely delighted when J. W. Ironmonger replied and agreed to be featured on my blog. The Coincidence Authority is the first novel that I have read for some time…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome Sue Barnard to my blog.  Sue was born in North Wales but has spent most of her life in and around Manchester. After graduating from Durham University, where she studied French and Italian, Sue got married then had a variety of office jobs before becoming a full-time parent. If she…
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As much by accident as design, the mother-daughter relationship takes centre stage in several of my novels. I tackled it first in Half-truths & White Lies where my main character Andrea only discovered the truth about her mother after it was too late to ask any questions. In my novel An Unchoreographed Life the relationship…
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Foyles on London’s Charing Cross Road, is playing host to The Indie Author Fair (IAF) on Friday 17th April 2015. Part of the London Book Fair Indie Author Fringe Festival, run by The Alliance of Independent Authors/Indie ReCon, the fair is organised by Triskele Books and sponsored by XPO North. After the success of IAF…
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