I was delighted to win a Gold Literary Titans award for the first book in The Techboys Series, The Refusal. I was even more delighted...

My favorite part of a launch is when readers start to dive into the book. Chiefly because the process of editing and smoothing out all...

When you're sitting at home writing all day and you're an indie author, the question becomes: what makes launch day special? You have to...

I've had some lovely feedback on The Refusal from men. And I guess it surprised me, it shouldn't have done, but sometimes it's difficult...

Many famous authors (E.M Forster, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen) were born or have lived significant periods of their...

... What more could you want in life? My fellow romance author Debbie Cromack introduced me to the Australian Firefighters Calendar via...

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,...

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

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...

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...

Another message from another reader mid book. I hope that when I've got lots of books out there, I will feel just as excited about these...

My ARC readers came to me via Instagram and gave me such lovely feedback about The Refusal, often as soon as they started reading or in...

There's a site on tumblr called Des Hommes et Des Chatons that I've loved for a while. What's not to love about handsome men and even...

I started out with this post thinking it might be fun to explore some writing before and after it’s edited. What was I thinking? One of...