![]() ![]() My own personal message that runs through all my books is live and let live. My publisher Boroughs Publishing Group design all my covers but I have a huge say in what they look like and they are very accommodating.įiona: Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp? And I’ve been to LA (Sight Unseen) So I do tend to get around a bit. I’ve travelled to Stamford and stayed in a quaint pub (Doubting Hearts). I’ve been to Norfolk to visit a lighthouse (Worth Keeping), Hampstead Heath to check out the ponds (Double Alchemy), lived in a circus in Romford (Living on Air) and been all over London to various locales for other books. I do tend to do this but youll have to guess what’s true and what’s not □įiona: To craft your works, do you have to travel? Before or during the process? I think every writer puts a little bit of themselves into each story they write, whether it be a physical trait, a mental one or something they believe. I like realism in my books so I try to make my characters and backgrounds as close to real life as I can.įiona: How much of the book is realistic and are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life? ![]() I LOVE writing dialogue and it’s probably a strength of mine. The heroine’s name is Cassandra, starlight could be stars in the eyes, a star in the making, and the word play made sense.įiona: Do you have a specific writing style? Is there anything about your style or genre that you find particularly challenging? The only way to get one was to write a character like him, so I did □ My debut novel Cassandra by Starlight is about a young, up and coming actor called Bennett Saville living in London and working in film and theatreįiona: How did you come up with the title? I fell in love with him watching Sherlock, the TV series. All that happens now is I get paid for writing these stories □įiona: What inspired you to write your first book?īenedict Cumberbatch!! No word of a lie. I’ve always been a writer since I could read and write, and in my childhood I wrote poems and short stories. I now write MM, but am looking at mixing this up soon and writing a cozy mystery story.įiona: When did you first consider yourself a writer? I started writing commercially in 2012 when I published my first book with Boroughs Publishing, an M/F story called Cassandra by Starlight. ![]() I still have all the material I wrote stuffed in a folder in the cupboard. I’ve been writing since I was a child, got my first typewriter when I was eleven and haven’t stopped. We’d love to get the film made but it’s a long, laborious task.įiona: When and why did you begin writing? I’m submitting a screen play called Sight Unseen, which I co-wrote with actor Nicholas Downs in LA, to festivals and so far this script has won six awards. Fetish Alley is a detective series, set in the rather unusual London alley which caters to the bizarre and the erotic. This is a spin off series from the Men of London featuring the characters in Feat of Clay, which was book 4 in the MOL series. In terms of writing, I’m currently finishing the next book, book 3, in my Fetish Alley series. The kids have grown up and moved into their own homes. ![]() We now live in Essex, in a beautiful thatched country cottage with our dog, Blu. I met the man who’d become my husband, got married, had two kids- a boy and a girl – then left in 2000 to come back to the UK. I would have loved to go to university but alas, there was no money to do that and SA doesn’t have funding like the UK has. I was brought up there, educated to University degree equivalent and started working when I was sixteen. When I was eight, my family left the UK to go live in South Africa. Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name.įiona: A little about yourself (ie, your education, family life, etc.). Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. ![]()
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