After being stopped several times and hearing people say “I didn’t know you were a writer,” it suddenly struck me that when we read books, we forget that it was written by someone who has a life outside of writing.  Yes, I am a writer.  Yes, I am a published novelist.  Yes, I have been featured on blogs, in the local newspaper and on local radio.  But, I am still a person too!  I am still a mother and a housewife.  I still have bills to pay, floors to clean, and mouths to feed.  It’s very surreal travelling to do a radio broadcast and being treated like a successful author, then returning home and having a cup of tea with my mother-in-law before doing the school run and cooking dinner.

Today, normal life resumed.  I don’t have any more interviews lined up just yet, (although they are being worked on)…

Sort of.

Last Thursday I was lucky enough to be featured in our local paper, the Western Gazette.

I was expecting a small corner of the paper, perhaps a little photograph no bigger than passport sized.  But no!  I got almost an entire page!!  And it’s obvious that people read it – I got stopped in the street, they were talking about it at school, I’ve had message after message on Facebook about it…  And then!! (Yes, there is more.)  I got a phone call on Friday from the BBC and invited to do a LIVE radio interview with Emma Britton on her show with BBC Radio Somerset!!  So on Tuesday 26th Feb, I will be on the radio from 11.10 to 11.20 am (British Time)!!

I’m ecstatic that the book has been so well received, and has already been given 5-star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, but it…