I’m trying something different. It’s not a New Year’s resolution or anything like that; it’s something I’ve been working on it for a few...

People often ask me where I get my ideas from and whether what I write is based on my own experience. When I did my first creative...

Kate Fletcher 3 – Bad Seed – was published on February 25th which just happens to be my birthday. It was a strange day because I had two...

I’ve written before about how much I appreciate Carlisle’s book festival, Borderlines. I’ve had the opportunity to hear some of my...

William Blake wrote in Proverbs of Hell ‘You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough’. Writing the ending to...

When I started writing Closer to Home it wasn’t really intended to be the first in a series. It was simply a way of telling a story that...

‘Closer to Home’, my last novel, is set in a mining town in South Yorkshire very much like the one in which I grew up. In fact, much of...

Just over a year ago I was interviewed by somebody from my local newspaper about my writing and my latest book. During the course of the...

On holiday in Italy, sharing a table with strangers, the conversation inevitably turned to what we all do for a living. Two of my dinner...

One of the things that I find most difficult when starting a new writing project is deciding on a title. When I was at school, teachers...