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A very nice Easter weekend of work and fun. And th

A very nice Easter weekend of work and fun. And then yesterday my 2023 book The Vanishing of Class 3B, which is suddenly having a moment across The Pond, topped the crime charts on Amazon US, at the same time as last year’s book The Life Sentence was still hanging out in the crime chart top 30 on Amazon UK, where it’s climbed back up to in the past few weeks. So that was nice 😃😃. Celebrated by doing a large pile of ironing with some pink fizz, because that’s the kind of party animal I am. Counting down now to the release of this year’s book, The Revenge Plot, coming out in just under six weeks’ time. I always get really scared at this time of year; you’d think I’d be used to it by now, but it never, ever gets easier sending a new book out into the world. A huge thank you to everyone who has read it ahead of publication so far and said nice things about it … it will be out there for everyone to read in e-book/audiobook on the 30th of May, followed by paperback on the 5th of June. #crimewriter #thrillerwriter #writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #writersofinstagram #ironing #bookcharts #crimenovel #authorlife #authorscommunity

EDIT: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED ❤️ Five years ago to

EDIT: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED ❤️
Five years ago today, The Perfect Couple was released. I had no idea at the time, but that book was about to change my life. Now I’m giving away three signed copies – details below! And I’ve told this story before, but today I’m telling it again. Once upon a time I wrote a book. And then a second, a third, a fourth. It took years, many rejections and much perseverance, but somehow they all found publishers, and sold a few copies and got some nice reviews. That was lovely, but each book took a year to write around a full-time job, and so few people were reading them there were times I wondered if it was all really worth it. But I loved writing so much I carried on anyway, and wrote a fifth book, The Perfect Couple. Because you never know, right? And then…something remarkable happened.
That book started to sell. It crept up the charts. It went to number one in both Canada and the UK. It took off in America, and became a USA Today bestseller. The audiobook went to number one on Audible. For the first time ever, my books appeared on supermarket shelves. I even won a bestseller award. Almost overnight, that book CHANGED EVERYTHING. Fast forward five years, and I’ve written five more books. I’m now published in nine languages, in places as far flung as Sri Lanka and South Korea. People send me pictures of my books in shops in New York and libraries in Hong Kong. I’ve sold well over a million books in English alone. I still do the TV job I absolutely love, but now I do it 11 days a month, and I spend the rest of my time on my writing job – the perfect balance. Even now there are days when I still have to pinch myself; when I can’t quite believe that this has happened. So if you’re slogging away and feel like giving up because it all seems a bit pointless, remember that sometimes, just sometimes, dreams really do come true. It happened to me, so why shouldn’t it happen to you? I nearly gave up. I’m so very, very glad I didn’t.

And so to the giveaway – to win a signed copy, just leave any comment under this video. Winners will be selected at random at midday on Thursday 24th April. Thank you so much for reading my books. ❤️

My new book The Revenge Plot will be released on 3

My new book The Revenge Plot will be released on 30th May and the diary is already getting busy with various book events so I thought I’d share a few of them with you now, in case you’re local to any of these places and would like to pop along and say hello! I’ll post links to tickets and full details nearer the time of each event, but here are some of my upcoming dates - more to be added later. It would be lovely to see some friendly and familiar faces 😃. #booktour #crimewriter #authorlife #crimewritersofinstagram #newbook #authorsofinstagram #thrillerbooks #psychologicalthriller #bookreleases #writer #writingcommunity

Five days of writing ahead of me but really enjoye

Five days of writing ahead of me but really enjoyed working on the spring fashion event at @qvcuk this week, culminating in a fabulous catwalk show last night co-hosted by me and the wonderful @carolinemacleodsmith. All of the pieces here are available at @qvcuk (my outfit is @sosandar). Back to the writing desk now with a bit of running and gardening thrown in to get me outdoors - bring on a sunny weekend! #tvpresenter #fashionshow #weareqvc #springfashıon #catwalk #catwalkshow #fashionover50 #springstyle #lovemyjob #work

We’re in the midst of a two-day spring fashion e

We’re in the midst of a two-day spring fashion event at @qvcuk which is great fun but which means three very late nights in a row for me. I’m really not good at late nights – I’m such an early bird – so apologies to @danniiminogue for having to put up with me last night (and for joining in with the craziness, and doing an excellent impression not just of me but also of an exploding shopping basket 😂❤️) #tvpresenter #livetv #tvstudio #danniiminogue #weareqvc #fashiontv #latenighttv #funatwork #onair #fashionevent

A message for my US readers! Here’s The Vanishi

A message for my US readers! Here’s The Vanishing of Class 3B’s UK cover (blue door) and US cover (yellow bus)…and over on Amazon US the book is on a Kindle Monthly deal at just 99c for the whole of April. This novel was one of the top 10 bestselling e-books in the UK for most of last summer so I hope you like it as much over there 🤞. Here’s the blurb 😃:

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip.
But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong.
The children and their teachers simply do not come back.
What’s happened doesn’t seem possible.
How can an entire class of children simply vanish?

#thevanishingofclass3b #crimenovel #crimewritersofinstagram #crimewriter #authorsofinstagram📚 #authorlife #kindlebooks #kindledeals #booklover

To mark Mothering Sunday, our @qvcuk presenter sty

To mark Mothering Sunday, our @qvcuk presenter stylist @charlotte_bhill asked a few of us to recreate moments and outfits from our childhood. I’m sure we weren’t all as angelic as these pictures make us look - I certainly wasn’t, sorry Mum! And if you’re a QVC viewer, can you guess the presenter from their childhood shot before the reveal? All the clothes in our recreated outfits are from @qvcuk although I’m not sure if all are currently in stock. My t-shirt is @ruthlangsford and my shorts are by Only.
#motheringsunday #childhoodmemories #childhoodphoto #mothersday #babypicture #teenagerlife #childhood #tvpresenter #throwback #weareqvc

When you’re very excited about organising your n

When you’re very excited about organising your new shed, and @ruthlangsford just makes EVERYTHING SMUTTY. And then you find out what she keeps in her fridge…🤣🤣
#tvpresenter #bloopers #funatwork #qvcuk #tvstudio #sheds #gardensheds #onair #livetv

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