‘Fracture’, Book 13 in my ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series is now available on Kindle world-wide. As always it’s a moving, romantic and often funny story but with serious issues also addressed, here including domestic violence in same-sex couples and the dangers of internalised homophobia. As the cover blurb has […]
One of the beauties of publishing on Kindle is that you can upload corrections and updates to books you’ve already published. I’ve never been totally happy with ‘Haze’ the first book in my ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series. The story is lovely, but I thought the language used wasn’t quite […]
As it says elsewhere on my website, the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series follows two women through their last days of school and on into adult life. When we first meet Hazel and Tina they are sixteen, an age chosen because it happens to be the age of consent here […]
‘Debbie’s Gift’ is the twelfth in the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series and tells of a friendship so strong that almost no sacrifice is too great. As the cover blurb puts it: Global Rock mega-stars ‘Xeroed’ have been together since they were at Saltbury High School back in the […]
Sometimes when writing one of my novels I have to create a story within a story. There’s the ghost story Annie tells Hazel, Tina and Rosie in ‘Annie’, the cautionary tale Roisin gives Hazel in ‘Rachel’ or the various historic documents I wrote for ‘History Girls’. But my […]
The ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series is at heart the story of two very different women: Hazel Fauld and Christine (Tina) Burns. They’ve been best friends since school and we follow them from the age of sixteen, eventually into their thirties. Both are lesbians, but while Hazel is totally at […]
My next book, ‘Debbie’s Gift’, went off to the editor a few days ago. That will be number 12 in the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series. Normally the manuscript is away for a few weeks, then comes back covered in red ink so I can set to, to produce the […]
Writer Neil Guiman once said that the purpose of a second draft is to make it look like you knew what you were doing in the first draft. I know exactly what he meant. I tend to write quite quickly, with a book roughly every four months, each […]
My writing is in an interesting position at the moment. I have one ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ book (‘Gold’) totally finished and ready to publish, but it can’t go out yet. It was an idea I wrote out of sequence well over a year ago now, so there are two […]
The dynamics of a relationship are always interesting to write. Is there a leader and a led, or are we dealing with true equals? Maybe things are more complex: one partner may tend to dominate in certain areas, and the other in others. But what if things change […]
Jo Brodie 