My favorite author has to be F.Scott Fitzgerald, his writing gives me goosebumps I guess I have read his works over and over again. I also enjoy the works of Phillip Pullman, Jack Vance and Piers Anthony.

Life and looking through my window to see beautiful countryside, each day I try and value just how lucky I am.

Being a couch potato watching television, or if I am brutally honest spending too much time on Facebook chatting to my friends about The Killers, okay I know it is an obsession but why not. If I am not doing that having fun with our family and taking holidays in the U.K.

I will have a story in my head and work hard on how to get to certain situations or scenes, if I am stuck I will leave my keyboard and go outside and sit in our garden for about ten minutes, usually it then all falls into place. I do not have a routine, some days I will write more words than other days, and some days will do no writing at all; I believe that way it stops the tale from becoming to mechanical. When I have written a chapter I will leave it for a while then go back and re-read it with fresh eyes to see if it makes sense.

I am hopeless to be honest as getting my head around design is rather difficult, although I can draw and paint. So as this is my first attempt I just tried to keep it simple and found a good tip on the internet and used Powerpoint and a free photograph which I had touched up in Photoscape. Maybe next time I will make a better job of it.

I wrote most of my novel on a desktop computer but as we only have a small house the desk was taking up too much space, so I invested in a refurbished laptop, so my desk is actually my lap and sofa.