My first creative writing consisted of short stories and the first chapters of many novels when I was about eight. They centred around pre-revolutionary Russian princesses who rode through the snow on troikas and were called Tatiana. I suspect I was heavily influenced by "Doctor Zhivago" and I shudder to think what happened to my princesses when the revolution came.
After years in the media I 'semi-retired' and settled down to write!
My novel "The Keeper of Secrets", which was on Kindle as a self-published ebook, is currently not available because I've signed a contract with Harper Collins USA and it will be published June 1st as a trade paperback under the William Morrow imprint and also as an ebook. I'm delighted by this development.
I have three other books on Amazon now: a book of quirky short stories "Stirred, Not Shaken" and a non-fiction book of my Dad's letters home during the war (he was a Spitfire pilot in England and the Middle East)called "Our Father's War" and I have the first novella in a crime trilogy called "In Vino Veritas." It is about wine, crime and love amongst the vines!
For the last two years I've lived in the gorgeous town of Cambridge, about two hours south of the city of Auckland (where I used to live) in the North Island of New Zealand.
Apart from writing and reading, my other passions are family, music of many sorts (especially opera and musical theatre - you can see my influences in "The Keeper of Secrets"), travel, theatre, cooking, my beloved and highly intelligent cat and sport.
Welcome to my world, I hope you enjoy my work.
