I've been teaching creative writing and writing novels myself for twenty years or more, and I love every moment I spend in my world of make-believe! I'm one of those people who can't help making up stories.But I've also had time to have some fun in the real world. I have two beautiful, talented children, Clara who lives in Minnesota, and Marianne who lives in Aberdeen, which is in Scotland. I have a gorgeous little blond grandson, too.I studied Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at university, and what I learned there formed the basis of my novel Elegy for a Queen, available on Kindle in the USA. I still like digging and getting my hands dirty! I'm a history addict and am fascinated by the twentieth century, surely the most astonishing time human beings have lived through yet? I've written several novels set in the first half of the twentieth century. The three most recent are The Silver Locket, The Golden Chain and The Penny Bangle, which are all on Kindle. In 2010, The Silver Locket won a Cataromance Single Titles Reviewers' Choice award, and in 2011 the cover art of The Golden Chain was chosen to feature on a KLM airliner. My contemporary novel, The Wedding Diary, is a bit of a departure for me - it's a romantic comedy. It was published in May 2013. My new title, Magic Sometimes Happens, is also a romantic comedy. I'm the author with Cathie Hartigan of The Creative Writing Student's Handbook, your one-stop guide to everything to do with storytelling. I love ebooks and print books. I'm sure ebooks are going to be the future for us all. But I don't yet have a crystal ball...