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‘Prolific’

‘How many books do you write per year?’ How this question haunts me. The answer could be ‘too many’ or ‘not enough’, depending on which measure you’re using and even depending on my state of mind at the time. Even the definition of what is a prolific author isn’t clear. My three books per year…

‘Romance Reasons’

I spend quite a bit of headspace reflecting on romance (perhaps too much for productivity on occasion, although it’s also definitely part of my process to analyse my genre) and there’s a slippery subject that continually refuses to be pinned down, although I have some concrete thoughts about it, and that is: ‘romance reasons’. Romance…

What to write next…

I was that kid who, at nine years old, said I wanted to be an author when I grew up. I wrote a mostly-finished sci-fi fantasy when I was fifteen (okay, I didn’t quite finish it, which probably says something about the psychology of writing). I wrote my first romcom at twenty-one (it has some…