Day 2

Author Life Month: My Author Photo

Here's a secret (well, it's not one any more obviously!)... 

I hate having my photo taken. 

I'm 35 so that makes me part of Gen Y... pre-social media and the dawn of the 'selfie', I grew up with rolls of film that you would take to the chemist to get developed and would then marvel at the fact most of them had my finger across the edge. I wish I could say I have perfected the pout, or the way I should tilt my head, or even that amazing cat-eye liner that celebs are sporting these days but I'm still as clueless as I was in my teens.

I do like this picture though. 

I wish I could say it was a quick snap but in fact it took my sister half an hour to do my make-up and then an hour of being shot from every angle with a professional digital SLR camera to get one shot I was happy with. I guess that's why I keep it even though I no longer wear the glasses (thanks to laser surgery). I know I'll have to update it at some point but for now I'm content for this to be the image people associate with me as an author... the saucy book lady with the bright pink hair!

Day 1

Author Life Month: My Books

All my life I've been creating stories in my head. I always thought I was a little strange as I couldn't fall asleep without some story playing out in my head like a movie. It was only through a series of (un)fortunate events that I suddenly ended up with a lot of free time on my hands and a need to do something to stop myself going crazy. So I started writing down a story that had been stuck in my head for months.

This was the start of my Thirty Days series. Two years later, not only had I written all four books of that series, I had also written a standalone novel and a couple of short stories. If you had asked me when I started writing that first chapter whether I could write an entire book, I would have laughed at you. You see, and here's the thing, the characters were driving me crazy. I started writing them down to get them out of my head. And you know what? It worked. So I wrote and wrote, and wrote some more and all of a sudden I had a book. But the story wouldn't leave me alone and four books later I finally had a complete series.

What started as a way of getting some peace and quiet in my life has turned into a passion. I'd always toyed with sitting down and writing a book but first my career and then a baby became my sole focus. Now, I'm somehow managing to balance all three. And when the voices start becoming too loud in my head, I know it's time to turn my laptop on and get writing.

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The Truth in Fiction

Originally posted on The Brit Babes

As I handed over a copy of my latest novel, Tied to You, to a friend last week she asked me the question that seems to come with the territory of writing erotic romance:

“So how much of this is about you?”

I was quick to reassure her that it was all fiction, a product of a very overactive imagination, but I have to confess that I was telling a little white lie. Because at the end of the day, no matter how much of a story comes from our imagination, there are always elements of ourselves imbedded into the narrative.

The reason for the white lie then? Well, I am sure my nearest and dearest don’t really want me to admit to what I get up to in the bedroom with the Hubby, even if he is always happy to participate in a little ‘research’, and most importantly of all there are simply things that I like to keep private.

No matter how much I keep to myself though, I do find it seeping into my writing. When I wrote my first novel, Thirty Days Have September, I was feeling adrift following a sudden move from Australia back to the UK. While I might have been pretending to everyone in my ‘real’ life that everything was okay, my main character’s depression and feelings of abandonment very much echoed how I was feeling at the time. I never I intended to write it that way, but as the words flowed out of me it seemed like so many things from my subconscious found its way into the story.

While I am very upfront about who I am as a person and the fact that I write what I write, I am still careful about how I am perceived, hence the need for some ‘creative’ truths. So when people ask me that question I am quick to tell them how marvellous Google is. I might be avoiding the truth but at the end of the day we are all entitled to a few secrets.