Last week I was lucky enough to participate in an event at a local bookshop called Brunswick Bound. The event was First Chapters – it’s run on the first Frid...

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...

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...

Welcome to my blog. For my first blog post (ever!) I thought I’d share a bit about why I write YA. Truth is, I hadn’t intended to become a YA writer. Like I ...