I suppose you have heard this one before, but truly, I have been writing stories since childhood. First, children's stories - one was about a flea which befriended a fly and then the two friends began to explore the countryside. Next, I was writing romances where there was always a handsome prince or gypsy, and of course always a beautiful princess. Not one story was ever published: I was just writing for myself. My first job in the media was as editorial assistant with a magazine group in Durban, and next I was asked to write an article for one of the group's magazines, and before I knew what was happening, I was married and living in Paris. And writing in Paris. Here in Paris I wrote articles for various magazines in South Africa and next I had become the Paris correspondent for an Australian magazine. I wrote mainly about royalty and movie stars, and then one day, I wrote an article  for the magazine about the murder of a child here in France, and ... my true-crime writing career began.  The editor thought I should write a book about the case,but I did not want to do so because, as I said, I did not want to reopen the parents' wounds. I next began writting for the true-crime site crimemagazine.com, and next, I had one day become interested in the WW2 French serial killer Dr Marcel Petiot. He had, as I say, drawn me down into him, down to where he was: in the gutters of Paris. The result of the interest is my book 'Die in Paris' which was published in February 2013 by RavenCrestBooks of London.  Writing true-crime and reporting the shenanigans of royalty and movie stars, did not however stop me from also writing fiction. And so, in December 2013, my first book of fiction - Bella ... A French Life - was published also by Raven Crest Book. Its publication led to the publication of a cookbook - Bella ... A French Life ... The Cookbook. And happy I am to say that my second book of fiction - For the Love of a Poet - was published on May 7 (2014). The book is set in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, in other words when the monster Stalin was in charge. In telling the story of her love for a dissident poet a young Moscow journalist tells what life was like under Stalin: she speaks of the persecutions, of the famines, and of the Gulag. Yet, the book is also a sad love story which I based on the adulterous love affair of one of Russia's most famous poets and novelists. I think you may well know who this is.    

Many newspaper and magazine clippings and four books.