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All in the name of research, I climbed to the top of Big Ben (334 steps to the belfry - don’t look down the stairwell if you’re afraid of heights!), toured the Palace of Westminster, and squeezed into the broom cupboard where suffragette Emily Davison once hid. In...

When I was asked to write a murder mystery evening for my local drama group, I decided to base the plot around an amateur production of a play that goes wrong.  But which play? I chose The Importance of Being Earnest, then about to be revived at the National Theatre,...

Harald Hardrada is a towering figure in European history, but as is often the case, the significance of the women in his life is often overlooked, and in no major figure is this more apparent and varied than the way history, both contemporary to Harald, and the...

There’s a big New Year’s Eve party at Harry’s parents’ house and he cooks for Kat because she hasn’t eaten and ends up feeding half the party-goers. He makes a couple of easy dishes which are easy to bulk up and used what was in the fridge (leftover party food) and...

My new psychological thriller, GOOD SISTER, BAD SISTER, focuses on twin girls, separated at birth, who only discover each other’s existence in adult life. It’s a fast-paced story about secrets and lies, deceptions and rivalry – and blood ties.  The inspiration? My own...

My novel, The Three Witches, tells the story of the sisters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.  Isobel, Merraid and Ysenda were ordinary ‘cunning women,’ healers, in Alba, (Scotland) in 1050. Young women, never the ‘midnight hags’ in the play, their lives were affected by...

Keeping it real One theme of The Time of My Life is how some people wear a mask, live a fake life, don’t *keep it real*. For one character it’s to do with what she does online. Most people post a shiny, happy version of their life which is not 100% the truth. It can...

Ever wondered how it all began for an author? Well, Gemma Rogers is here to tell you a little bit more about her publishing journey! Read more below ⬇️ Where it started… My brother and I used to write stories and illustrate them as children; we absolutely loved...

When I was a child, I adored reading adventure stories.  From The Magic Faraway Tree to The Secret Seven, I progressed to The Famous Five and then The Phoenix and the Carpet and Five Children and It, to name but many.  Taking fairly ordinary people out of their lives...