Author and Blogger
Each month last year, I wrote a blog post about all the books I'd read that month and picked the one I enjoyed the most. I was interested to put that list together to see my 12 favourite books I read in 2017. I think it's clear I have wide-ranging tastes - the list includes… Continue reading My Books Of 2017
This week, I took part in my first ever author event! I joined authors Sheila O'Flanagan and Jo Thomas at Foyles in Birmingham. Here we are waiting to go on ... We started the evening with each of us saying a few words about our books and then we did a short reading. It… Continue reading Meeting Readers Is My New Favourite Thing
This weekend I hit London with my lovely booktuber friend George Lester. We searched for my book The Second Love Of My Life in all the bookshops and I signed all the copies I could find! Waterstones Traflagar Square: It was so surreal and wonderful to see my book in Waterstones as a bookseller… Continue reading TSLOML book hunt
It was wonderful to launch the publication of my debut novel The Second Love Of My Life at the Waterstones store I work in. The evening was a chance to thank all my family and friends for their support during my journey to get published and toast the book on its way out into… Continue reading The Second Love Of My Life Launch Party
I recently read that Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney is opening up his own bookshop in the town where he lives. He isn't the first author to do this - Nora Roberts, for example, also owns a bookshop which her husband runs in their hometown. There seems to have always been a bookshop fantasy for… Continue reading The bookshop dream
