About me

I was born in Cape Town, South Africa in …oh yes, never trust a woman who tells you her age as she’ll tell you anything.  So let’s just say, it was a long time ago.  Way too long ago.  I’ve been married (that probably aged me further) and divorced and sold the t-shirts to make extra money to feed my three lovely children.
Some might say I have gypsy blood as I’ve moved around a lot, but really I’ve used my teaching qualifications to teach in different countries and travel the world.  I have one of those bucket list type of thingies – a list of things to do and places to go before I die.

For some strange reason, things just seem to happen to me, and this gives me an endless supply of material to write more books.  Writing is something I always loved to do from a very young age, and I’ve always been an avid reader.  I put my weak eyesight down to all those nights of reading under the covers by torchlight.  The teacher part of me will tell you that to be a good writer, you probably need to be a good reader as well.  But, enough talk about work-related stuff.

My first book was called Fear, Phobias and Frozen Feet.  It’s a non-fiction self-help book about how to break the pattern of bad relationships some of us keep getting into.  I got the idea to write that book when I was shafted, yet again, conned, yet again, and had my heart broken yet again, while recovering from breast cancer.  I got the idea for my first novel on the train to Shanghai.  Amazing what goes through your head on a two-hour train journey. Stop the world, I need to pee!  introduces you to Fenella Fisher, a very different type of main character, one I feel that many people will be able to identify with.  The Case of Billy B was my second work of fiction.  In total, I have written two self-help books, three children’s books, one young adult novel, one travel diary, one book narrating the paintings by Daniel Quinlan, and six novels.

Life is a series of adventures.  Hope yours are all good!

Cindy