"You have an offer of a three book deal!"

Friday 26th February 2016 is going to be a date that I'll remember for the rest of my life - it's when a teenage dream finally came true.

I'd just got home after meeting the wonderful members of the Norfolk Chapter of the RNA for lunch in Norwich, when the phone rang. It was my brilliant agent Felicity, who I think said, "Are you sitting down?" I did. Then came the magical words, "You've got an offer of a three book deal!" This was followed by much squealing and jumping around which brought my husband rushing in to see what the matter was.

Unbelievably a second offer came in the following week, and negotiations started. Having one offer was amazing but to have two was way beyond my dreams. Both were excellent offers with fantastic publishers, so I went down to London for to meetings at both publishers as it was important to meet them and hear what they had potentially planned for my books. 

Then came the hard bit. I had to choose between them and it was a very difficult decision because they were both so good. I even made comparison charts to try to make it easier. In the end my heart knew who I should choose because they felt so right for me. It had to be the wonderful Little Brown Sphere.

Manpreet Grewal, who's my editor at Sphere made the announcement in The Bookseller yesterday see  http://www.thebookseller.com/news/debut-saga-series-sphere-329785

It's there in print so I didn't dream it after all.

The home of Sphere just across the road from the River Thames.