I’ve been trying to be a novelist since I was fourteen. I was a good enough reader to see that the first two attempts (one when I was fourteen and one in my early twenties) weren’t good enough to publish. Then along came life. A seriously ill child who required years of therapy; a rising mortgage that led to a full-time job; my own chronic illness… the writing took a back seat.
As the years passed, the fear grew. I’d waited so long. If I never finished any of the dozens of novels I started, no one would ever judge them.
My mother believed in me, and on the way home from that great lady’s funeral, I realised I’d left it too late for Mum to ever hold a print copy of one of my fiction books. So I replaced the fear of finishing with the fear of not finishing, by telling everyone I knew that I was writing a novel.
In the years since I published my first fiction book just before Christmas in 2014, I published seven novels, thirteen novellas, a heap of shorter stories, and more novellas in group anthologies. I plan to keep going till I run out of years.
I write historical fiction with a large helping of romance, a splash of Regency, and a twist of suspense.
I then try to figure out how to slot it into a genre category.
I’m mad keen on history, enjoy what happens to people in the crucible of a passionate relationship, and love to use a good mystery and some real danger as mechanisms to torture my characters.
In my other identity as Judy Knighton, I’ve been a plain language consultant specialising in contracts, insurance policies, and financial disclosure statements. Fiction is more fun.
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