Suzie Wilde isn’t your average writer; with a personal history that could supply story to any novelist, it is only fitting that Suzie went on to study creative writing and craft intimately detailed, can’t-put-it-down narratives of her own.
Lifetime companion to Labradors, Suzie spends much of her time walking the challenging countryside of the South Downs. Born an inner-city girl, this has become a place she feels intimately connected and where her themes of home and belonging were formed. Trying to give something back, she contributes podcasts to the new local radio station, runs a writing critique and book group.
An active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Society of Authors, Suzie has has given talks at
For the first fifteen years after I left university, I put in the hard slog. I had an ordinary job, a predictable salary and a hefty mortgage. I lived near London. Culture and pollution oozed out of every pore of the magnificent capital in equal measure, and I loved the challenges, the pace and the variety of that chapter of my life.
But then I had a family, and my entire perspective transformed. I moved to the East Coast of Australia and went from scraping ice off my windscreen to wiping sweat from my face at Christmas time. To start with, I was completely disorientated, but now I’m at home, writing books in paradise.
That sea change inspired my first novel, ‘Universal Values’.
The process of deciding to move, and the complete metamorphosis i
Hi, I am Frances. I have been in Education for the last 12 years either as a primary school teacher, teaching assistant or tutor. I am a mother of two based in Nottinghamshire with my husband and crazy dog!
I love writing books. I have wanted to do it from such a young age, but unfortunately, I had 'that' teacher who said I wasn't great at writing. But fast forward twenty years, and I realised actually, it doesn't matter what that person thought anymore because I love writing. It was getting to that point where I would be reading 1 or 2 books a week and becoming so frustrated with the ending or, wanting something different to happen that I was desperate to write my own and these books exploded out of me!
