Number 17 in my Saltbury Chronicles series is now out on Kindle and there’s trouble in Tina and Carol’s little family. We finally meet their daughter Millie properly. It’s the start of the long school summer holidays and eleven year old Millie, is bored, bored, bored. Her best […]
Some authors write books directly onto computer. Others like to do their first drafts long hand with pen and paper and only type them up later. I tend to do a bit of both. About half is typed from the start, but when the weather is nice I […]
It’s been really interesting letting my characters age. When the Saltbury series started my two main characters, Hazel and Tina, were sixteen year old school girls, just finding out who they were. Hazel was convinced she was overweight and unattractive. Tina was just starting to flower into the […]
My new novel, the 16th in the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series, is out on Kindle and we continue the story of main characters Hazel and Tina, now in their thirties, two decades after we first met them as school seniors in ‘Haze’. This time we focus on Hazel’s younger […]
As a little Christmas present for my readers, here is an extract from my book ‘Sisters’. To set the scene, main character, 20-year-old Hazel, has brought her girlfriend Annie to spend Christmas with her mums, Deb and Martine, her big sister Róisin and her much younger sisters Danielle […]
The 15th in my ‘Saltbury Chronicles series is now out and it’s a tale of the healing power of true love. I suppose most romances end with a couple getting together, or perhaps with a wedding. But to me that is only the start. Hopefully if the love […]
My new book ‘Gold’ came out on 10th July. It’s the 14th in my ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series and had taken a month longer than usual, thanks to illness, but I must confess I think it’s my best yet, and it’s been a lot of fun to write. ‘Gold’ […]
Many same-sex couples want children, but of course there are issues. One woman can’t get another pregnant, whilst cis men at least, can’t get pregnant at all. The answer is surrogacy in one form or another, including sperm donation. Artificial insemination enabled several of my ‘Saltbury’ families. Anonymous […]
This is a question I’m often asked. My series starts late in 2001 with Hazel Fauld first meeting Annie on the school bus. It’s set just over 20 years ago now, in a world not that different to today’s. So why didn’t I just start in the then […]
I must confess I rather like writing dream sequences. They allow an escape from reality and day-to-day logic, yet they often have an internal logic of their own. They can also give an insight into a character’s state of mind, both to us and often the character as […]
Jo Brodie 