Alphafemale
I am interested in this whole chicklit question. Have you suffered from being pigeonholed? Your books seem to me just terribly good. Why is there this urge to place writers into a genre? You must feel rather pleased that you've been a genre-buster recently?
Hi Alphafemale
Thank you! And I'm delighted you think I'm a genre buster! I think that would be a very nice place to be.
I don't think I've exactly suffered from pigeonholing - I'm not sure until recently that people knew WHERE to place me. What's been lovely about the last two books is the wide variety of people that have been reading them. I'm selling an awful lot via ebooks - sometimes 1:1 - and that has meant a lot of men or people who wouldn't have read a pink cover are now happily reading. My favourite email recently came from a welder who said he had to take time out at work to have a little cry - and that when he gave the book to his friend, another welder, he did too...