What’s Maggie up to now?

Those of you who have read Outdriven, my first published novel, may have wondered if the heroine, Maggie Miles, would settle back to a quiet life after all the trials and tribulations. But no. I’m currently working on Outlawed the sequel. Set a couple of years later in 2010 we find Maggie thrown in jail. What has she done? She doesn’t know. Only that Howard, the mysterious man she met on the ferry is somehow involved. Will she be sentenced to a long stay in prison or will her innocence be believed? I’m half-way through and the plot is thickening.

I’ll let you know as soon as it’s finished and at the publishers.

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Where do you start?

Coming up with a new idea for a novel is an interesting process. You get ideas from all sorts of places; from people you meet and stories they tell, from newspapers and magazines, maybe from incidents that happen to you. You run with an idea, sketch out a synopsis –

Don’t say a word.

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