This is an exciting week. I can’t allow myself to get excited about Christmas until December 1 but now we are ON. We’re lighting a fire in the evenings, I’m planning on buying a Christmas tree this week, we’re due at our first Christmas party… Read More
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The Library of Fragrance
I don’t like buying perfumes, partly out of pikiness but partly because I get sick of them so quickly. Of the four ones I use at the moment, one was a present (Clarins Eau Dynamisante), one is a cast-off from a friend who didn’t like it… Read More
Does it count as fan art when it’s your own book?
This is the sketch I created to try and show my publishers how the girls in Girls on Tour all know each other … Using the ‘seven squiggles and add hair’ ™ method I developed during boring Geography classes when I was fourteen. I can’t… Read More
Ta-dah … Girls Take Manhattan cover reveal!
While I was on holiday in the States I got a very exciting email containing … this! It’s the cover of THE GIRLS TAKE MANHATTAN, the final e-novella in the Girls on Tour series. AKA the one where they all get together and have a wild… Read More
Why Lily is my favourite Girl on Tour
(Shh, don’t tell the others.) Obviously I love all the Girls on Tour equally …. but if I HAD to pick a favourite, it would be Lily. I just love her. I find that there are some characters you have to build from the ground… Read More
I have been away. I am just (well, as of Saturday) back from two weeks in Georgia, USA. And I know, if I was a proper media-savvy author I would have been blogging and tweeting my way around the state, but a) I was on holiday! and… Read More
Lily Does LA is published today!!!
Happy Birthday Lily!!!! My new ebook Lily Does LA is published today. And I’m over on the Headline site talking about my favourite things to do in Los Angeles … Come on over and take a look. And I hope you enjoy Lily!
From Poppy to Lily: how I thought up Girls on Tour
A funny thing happened recently. A kind blogger helpfully pointed out that the Goodreads blurbs for the Girls on Tour series were all out of date. They referred to earlier drafts of the blurbs and things I’d changed ages ago – like Jesse in Lily Does… Read More
Interview with Ella Harper, author of Pieces of You
You may have heard of the new book Pieces of You by Ella Harper – out now in ebook with paperback coming on September 25th. Ella is a lovely author who I met in her previous life as Sasha Wagstaff when we did an event together and… Read More
The people inside my head
Call me sentimental but I get attached to my characters. Having seen them through their adventures I like to know what happens to them afterwards – especially since a happy ending always the start of something else. And I also like taking people who had a small… Read More