Everything starts with What If…
What if a debutante became a spy? What if no one was whom they seemed? What if my cat could talk? What if he wasn’t a cat at all? What if my family was secretly magical? These might seem like insane questions to the average person, but in my house, they are the starting point for some incredible adventures.
I firmly believe that magic is all around us. And I don’t necessarily mean the woowoo kind. There is magic in moving to a foreign country, getting married, having children, quitting a job, and starting something new. But magic also hides within the mundane, if you’re brave enough to look for it.
If you like stories where everyday women discover the extraordinary, you’ll find yourself well at home with my books.
About My Writing
I believe it was Plato who said that necessity is the mother of all invention. In the case of my writing career, that statement is 100% true. I fell into writing when I moved to the Netherlands with an eight-week old baby in tow. Neither my husband nor I spoke Dutch, and we didn’t have the first clue what questions we needed to ask to get the information we needed to survive as expat parents.
After a year of learning my way around the Netherlands, I wanted to help other families avoid the same problem. I convinced my partner-in-crime to launch an expat parenting website with me. We designed and built it from scratch, and my writing career was launched. It wasn’t long afterwards that I decided to branch out, writing less about Dutch daycares and more about my own trials and tribulations as a woman, wife and mother.
Fictional writing followed along when I realised that a tweak here and there, or even a broad extension of the truth could sometimes move a personal story from meh to wow. I was well and truly hooked.
Nowadays, I write fiction when the stories in my head become too exciting to ignore. I love starting with a central character – always a powerful, confident woman – and then seeing what happens when I turn her life upside down.