by VerveBooksBlog | May 15, 2025 | Uncategorised
There is a trope in Hollywood about the importance of trapping your characters. The idea being that when we feel trapped our behaviour is heightened, our choices get bigger and the stakes automatically rise. Perhaps this is why I’ve always loved reading and writing...
by VerveBooksBlog | Apr 28, 2025 | Uncategorised
I’m thrilled to be writing today for the Verve blog about my debut novel, Made for You, a speculative thriller that was ten years in the making. Okay, not literally. In point of fact, I drafted this book in 7 weeks, and from that version to its final form, it didn’t...
by VerveBooksBlog | Apr 10, 2025 | Uncategorised
Happy International Siblings Day! We are bringing you the books with all the best depictions of siblings – get ready to add them to your TBR x The Color Purple by Alice Walker The events in this book literally wouldn’t EXIST if it weren’t for the main...
by VerveBooksBlog | Apr 3, 2025 | Uncategorised
Some years ago, I visited the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India. It’s an impressive building, centuries old, set on the top of a hill. The main courtyard was where the business transactions, legal disputes and political strategy of the region took place. This area, we...
by VerveBooksBlog | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorised
According to the largest study conducted on trans and gender diverse youth in Australia (where I live), 48% of young trans people have attempted suicide. Put another way, almost one in two trans kids in this country have tried to kill themselves. One in...
