When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
When the weather allows, I'm mostly in the garden with the dh. We moved last year and we've been working hard on the neglected patch we took over. Other than that it's reading, watching TV - Strictly Come Dancing, Gareth Malone, those brilliant noir Scandinavian thrillers, The Big Bang Theory.
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Oh yes! It was for a children's picture paper called Twinkle. It was called A New Home and I they bought it for £6 which doesn't sound much, but at a £1 for a hundred words was actually a good deal. However, it wasn't a way to make a living and I swiftly moved onto to longer fiction. :)
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