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The Two ‘Ice Cream Girls’
April 5, 2013It’s a little-known fact that my readers often make me cry. They do so by telling me how my books have deeply moved them. With The Ice Cream Girls, I have had numerous emails from people all over the world telling me how the book changed their lives or the life of someone they know. Such as the 60-year-old woman who said the book reflected her experiences in a way that she had never been able to share. Such as the domestic violence perpetrators outreach worker who said the ...
Read more10 years on the shelves!
February 6, 2013Today marks 10 years of my first novel hitting the shelves. Last year, it was ten years since an agentless me received the letter offering me a two-book deal from Piatkus publishing. I was living in South London at the time and went up to central London to be interviewed by a reporter from The Voice newspaper at Borders in Oxford Street. I didn't know how I'd feel when I saw a book on with my name on it. Excited, proud, a little shocked. I'd spent so long wanting to be published that the moment of it actually happening was a little overwhelming. I do remember wondering if that feeling would ever get tired and it hasn't. I really hasn't. As a side note, I was really sad when Borders closed. I always feel a real sense of grief when a bookshop closes but that was an additional sadness b...
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Ta-dah!
January 29, 2013Hello! Well, I've had this for a couple of weeks and FINALLY I can show it to you . . . It's the paperback cover for The Rose Petal Beach! I love it. (I am biased though.) Thing is, I loved the other one, too so I genuinely don't know which one I love more. I could spend a lot of time angsting over which one I prefer, but I don't know. So I'm going to decide that I love them both equally - just as I love my books equally - and be happy that I've got another fantastic cover. Thanks so...
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Have you heard the other story of the Rose Petal Beach?
August 30, 2012Have you heard the story of The Rose Petal Beach? I have, because I wrote it. But there’s another story that goes with The Rose Petal Beach that you won’t find in the pages of the book. My eighth novel is another landmark upon my publishing journey. This is the first book with my lovely new publishers Quercus books and it’s the book released in the year of my 10th anniversary of being a published author. To be fair, each of my books have been landmarks in different way, they’ve all...
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Calm down, calm down
August 3, 2012The other day I asked a question on Twitter and Facebook about a documentary on the most popular book in the charts at the moment – you know the one. Well, I thought I was asking a question, I was in fact, unleashing Armageddon upon my corner of the social networking world called Facebook. Over the past couple of days I’ve been reflecting on the wisdom of asking the question when I KNOW that the subject tends to cause such extreme reactions in people. I don’t like subjects that wonâ€...
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