DIVA Writer of the Year award

DIVA Writer of the Year award
At the end of April, I took a couple of days off from working on SILENT BONES to go down to London for the DIVA Awards Dinner. It’s always a great night but this year was especially uplifting — following the egregious Supreme Court judgement and its potential impact on the ability of trans people to live their lives, the love and solidarity in the room was palpable. It was wonderful to see so many friendly faces, but for me the evening was transformed by the joy of winning the DIVA Writer of the Year award. I was genuinely gobsmacked — it was such a strong shortlist, I thought I had no chance! Such a vindication to win this award in the year I will publish my 40th novel. (Yes, 40th! How did that happen?)  Find out more…

I finished the first draft of Silent Bones at the beginning of the second week of May — a bit later than usual, but so it goes… Now it’s gone off to my editor, my agent and my US editor and I’m in that blissful state of having completed the draft but not yet having had my notes… Time to enjoy the sunshine!