One year ago today, on 1 November 2018, my first novel came out. Nothing much happened on the actual day but, symbolically, it was momentous: my first publis...

I LOVE getting feedback about my work. It’s one of two of my favourite parts of the writing process (the other is the rush of getting a BRILLIANT idea and tu...

The more manuscripts I write (I’m up to my seventh), the more I refine my process. Not that it’s a planned thing. The process is dictated by the way my mind w...

I’m one of those writers who reckons you can’t write the first sentence of a novel until you know the last. The first line, I think, should say something (on...

I woke up this morning thinking,** as I often do, that I must get back to work on my current manuscript-in-progress. It’s been far too long between sessions....

This Thing of Darkness is told from the point of view of an 18-year-old girl – Riley Benjamin. I am not an 18-year-old girl, I have never been an 18-year-old...

When I first started writing fiction, I went to an author talk given by thriller and YA author James Phelan. During the talk, he explained that he planned al...

This Thing of Darkness is my first YA novel. Before this, I’d written three adult crime fiction manuscripts that remain unpublished. The first of these crime...