Amanda Lees is the author of the bestselling satirical novels Selling Out and Secret Admirer as well as the acclaimed YA trilogy Kumari: Goddess of Gotham, Goddess of Secrets and Goddess of Destiny. She has a degree in drama and her first telly job was as a member of the Communist Resistance in ‘Allo ‘Allo. This involved running around with a dachshund tucked under one arm and deploying her best cod French accent. It’s all been dramatically downhill since. A broadcaster as well as an actress and novelist, Amanda appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She won an award at the Hungarian Film Festival for a short film called Pros and Cons that she produced, and has a number of film and book projects currently in development. Here are Amanda’s top five writing tips:
read your heart out 
