I can’t tell you the feeling when I opened an Amazon box at the weekend to find my novel inside it…my spine literally tingled! It was a great feeling to hold my novel after the years it’s taken me to write it, but it was also annoying to realise I’d chosen the wrong size for […]

Here is the back cover for my novel Three Fat Singletons. The white space is for the bar code which will be inserted as soon as Create Space (who are going to print the book) accept the final version. I hope you like it.  It’s a bit different but when self publishing you have to […]

This is a picture of me at my heaviest in January 2005.  I received this picture a few months after it was taken in the post and I was horrified.  I knew my weight was out of control, but it had been most of my adult life, but this photo shocked me out of denial […]

So…this may be the new name of my book…possibly! I have had a 50/50 split of comments regarding a switch of titles to Living It Large from Three Fat Singletons.  In all honesty, I have no idea which way to go. It may well be decided by the flip of a coin! I’d love to […]

Originally ‘Three Fat Singletons’ was a working title until I decided ‘it does exactly what it says on the tin, so left it.  Among my four rejection emails yesterday (JK Rowling got 12 so I’m not overly concerned about this) I received a comment from an agent and it made me question the title.  I’ve […]