I just saw a section on another writer's website called Frequently Asked Questions , in which she listed questions that readers often as...

This is for new readers of this blog (as the post has already appeared in the December archives)... Sue’s View When I suggested to Jane t...

She's back from her op and she begged to be allowed to do a few postings on her blog, so what could I say? Click here for the first .

Plotting for Beginners was published in the US at the beginning of July. The US edition contains a glossary at the back for American reader...

Sally Howe, heroine of Plotting for Beginners , has posted her last blog today. She's going into hospital for a partial knee replacement...

If you're new to this website, you may be interested to read how Jane and I co-wrote Plotting for Beginners . If so, you'll find a p...

Yes, yes, my editor likes Zuzu's Petals . She likes it a lot. So all being well, it will be published next year, and then you can tell ...

That's it. I have finished Zuzu's Petals and sent it to my editor at Snowbooks . Will she like it? Watch this space. (AArrgghh......

"So what is it like, living with a writer?" an old friend asked my husband yesterday. "Very difficult," he said. ...

Occasionally I find myself living in Sally's world - i.e. the world of Plotting for Beginners . This happened yesterday, when I got a p...

After months of thinking of nothing but my new novel, I'm having a break. Three writer friends are reading it, and while I wait for thei...

Oh, I have to stop tinkering with ZuZu's Petals ! I have been editing the new book and rewriting bits and I now have three writer friend...

A couple of weeks ago I gave the first draft of my new book to three trusted friends to read and comment on and now the jury's back. The...

I've just finished the first rough draft of my next book. Yeah! At the moment it's called Zuzu's Petals , but by the time it...

When we launched Plotting for Beginners last May, Rony Robinson of BBC Radio Sheffield interviewed Jane and me about how we came to write t...

If you would like to see photographs of the places that Sally Howe mentions in Plotting for Beginners , go to Sally's World.

All the time that Jane and I were writing Plotting for Beginners , we struggled to think of a title. The working title we used on all our ea...

Someone suggested that Jane and I should have Plotting for Beginners translated into Latin to boost the sales. (As if the sales needed boos...

If you would like to catch up with Sally Howe, the heroine of Plotting for Beginners, you can read her blog at plottingforbeginners.com .

This morning I woke at 4.30 a.m. from a dream in which I was in a line to shake hands with Tony Blair. No way do I want to shake hands with...

Sue’s View When I suggested to Jane that we should write a book together, we weren’t even friends. We attended the same writing group and ...

Monsal Dale Where Jeremy ogles Sally Chatsworth Farm Shop, where Sally buys her free range meat Bloomers in Bakewell, where Sally buys tr...

With co-author Jane Linfoot: Signing books at Waterstones in Sheffield:

Sue Hepworth and Jane Linfoot Jane and me at the launch of Plotting for Beginners Me (6) & younger sister, Jen (4): My fami...

I was lucky to be born into a large happy family – not the best start for a writer. So I was not a lonely, only child who was constantly scr...