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Did you enjoy the experience of writing about Niroli?

I found the experience challenging and fascinating, it was a real learning curve for me-a new area to explore as a writer.

Would you like to visit Niroli?

To be honest I feel as though I already have visited the island-I can even smell its warm scented air whilst I’m writing about it.

Which of the ‘Rules of Niroli’ would you least like to abide by?

All of them-I hate rules!

How did you find writing as part of a continuity?

Like I said I hate rules, and I found it very challenging! One always wants to give the reader the best possible read, and I found my imagination got tangled up in the complexities of writing for a continuity. Having said that, I also felt it was good for me as a writer to meet the challenge it represented.

When you are writing, what is your typical day?

I start work at around 9.30 am and normally spend the morning reviewing and editing the previous day’s writing. I then write in the afternoon, and the evening. Writing is my life and absorbs 75% of my waking hours.

Where do you get your inspiration for the characters that you write?

I let the plot lines inspire me and work from there trying to build up a character or characters who will logically fit into the emotional conflict I want to create. For me no character ever exists simply in the here and now of the story-I have to know their whole emotional makeup and the events in the lives that have shaped them from childhood.

What, in your opinion, makes a great ‘Modern’ hero?

For me a hero has to be compelling both sexually and emotionally, he has to be proud and strong and even perhaps a little arrogant, but he also-vitally important to me-has to have some vulnerability. He has to have a human side which allows us to sympathise with him and to see that here in this man there is something genuinely lovable. He also has at some point to show a willingness to understand that his love for the heroine is such that he must overcome whatever inbuilt mind-sets he has that are coming between them. Like this writer, he has to grow in awareness and self knowledge so that he can be worthy of his heroine’s love for him.

Tell us about the project you’re working on at the moment.

I’m sorry but I am rather superstitious about discussing my future writing in detail! But I do hope to go on creating truly memorable heroes and stories for the readers for many years to come!