“Every so often I bump into stone walls & I pick myself up & climb over them.” ― Vivien Leigh

Without tenacity you’ll give up at the first hurdle. Or the 4th. Or the 50th. There will be many hurdles & the tricky bit is you don’t know how many. It’d be a lot easier if you were given a list at the beginning of your life so you knew in advance just how much tenacity you’d need to make it. Sadly, it isn’t so While I was wandering through a desert of disappointment – getting rejection after rejection for my writing – I loved watching films & reading books about people who never, ever gave up & ended up winning against all the odds. Cheesy films like Flashdance & The Matrix were firm favourites. When I self-published my first novel I watched it sooo many times & each time I felt reinvigorated to pick myself up & climb over the next wall!

Pic: the paperback of HOPE STREET arrived today! Out 26th March. Giveaways & comps coming soon…