I'm a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller author

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• ask me anything!

As it is ask me anything..
Who are you?

(Please be Sarah A. Denzil because I love her)

Which book in your genre, by another author, do you wish you had written?

What made you, or how did you write your first published book?

Hoping you're liane moriarty

Have you always been a writer or have you had other not so exciting jobs?!

Or Clare Mackintosh

What’s the best bit of advice you received on writing/getting published, when starting out?

Would you please sign a book? Would pay book and p n p :) Ooh, what genre?

When you’re writing a book, are you also able to read for pleasure or is it too confusing/distracting?

And is there a book you really
wish you’d written?

A question I would never ask IRL but since it is AMA - how much money have you made from your books? And is much ongoing income generated? In other words, is being a successful author lucrative!

A second question if I may - do you hope for TV or film adaptation? (Or is it in the pipeline already?

I kind of think Ask Me Anything posters should do so when they’re available to answer the anything 😂

Good advice and one I repeated to myself many times before I wrote my first book :)

I’m a writer in a completely different genre. However I love watching psychological thriller movies and recently read PUSH so was wondering what other books in that genre are good.

@Jessforless I keep getting an error message saying I have posted too much!

@frecklejuice oh yes I had a super boring day job until 2017!

Thanks for doing this!

@Chewbecca an awful lot. Paid my mortgage off.

I’d love to write a book!

How many hours a day do you write and how long does it take to write and then publish?

Do you begin knowing an ending/twist and work towards it, or do you write chronologically and work it out as you go?

Are you friends with any other famous authors?

Do you have to do a lot of research on the background of your novels? How much time does the research take up as compared to the writing?

@AllstarFacilier a year. Work about five hours a day, but six or seven days a week. Definitely know the ending!

How much pressure are you under by the publishers to include certain characteristics or traits?
I have a writer friend who was told to diversify her story. Of course she did and it worked fine, but I wondered if they have targets to hit.

How did you find time to write alongside your boring day job when you were starting out? Did you have to juggle it with family life?

This is my biggest challenge. I have small children which doesn't help.

That was a good question and glad to hear from your response you earn a lot .

From what I’ve seen, a lot of writers are understandably very tight lipped about their author income. However this means aside from the publicity announcements about their book deal which sometime mention a rough amount eg. “6 figure deal” you don’t hear much about it, so even other writers are unsure how much their peers are earning.

Congratulations on your success and thanks for this very interesting AMA.

If not too intrusive a question, how many books did you get published before you were earning the equivalent of a full time income/could quit your day job?

Would you go back and redo your first book or were you happy with it now you know what you know?