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Hi ! and welcome to my website.
Having received many very kind letters about my books over the years, I've decided to get technological !
When I was a child, the only punishment that really hit home was not being allowed to read, and I remember defying the ban and to hell with the consequences! Fortunately, these days those consequences are on the verge of being made illegal.
I read everything I could get my hands on, and God bless Mr Tebbutt, the local librarian who allowed me to borrow from the adult section at the age of eight. Classics, westerns, crime, romance, history, horror, science fiction - I soaked it all up.
I knew I wanted to be a writer as soon as I became aware that real people wrote books.
My first novel, Rotary Spokes, was published by Brilliance Books in 1989 and that moment of holding a real book with my name on it was sheer joy.
For the next seven years I produced a novel annually and one collection of short stories, I Believe in Angels.
I did a lot of journalism, contributed short stories to many collections and really felt I was getting there. Then, after Blossom at The Mention of Your Name came out in 1995, everything changed.
Having always dismissed writer's block as an affectation, I was horrified when it hit me. Thousands of notes and half chapters later, I found that nothing seemed to flow. It was like trying to play a piano with no strings. I felt that maybe I'd been a writer and couldn't imagine ever writing again.
And now my new novel As You Desire me is in the shops and hot off the press. Holding the first copy of that in my hands brought back wonderful memories. I hope you enjoy your visit to the site - please let me know.
Thank you all for your encouragement and enthusiastic support over the years, and I hope you continue to enjoy my work.
And yes - I am working on a new book - again!
Never say never!
Fiona Cooper
Fiona Cooper, is a published author of seven novels and a short story collection, see Book Reviews.
Several of her books have been translated into German and Catalan, and her work has also been dramatised for the BBC's Radio 4
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