I love spending time alone. Lots of people I know tell me that they hate being by themselves, but it's something I really value and need. I love and adore my family, but I go slightly crazy if I go too long without some time alone, even if it's just a few hours. It's probably why I'm suited to writing, it's kind of a necessity of the job.
Kat French
I'm a leap year baby - as I grown older I take much comfort in the fact that even at one hundred, I'll still be able to say it's my twenty-fifth birthday!
My latest book, The Bed & Breakfast on the Beach is set on the Greek island of Skelidos, a fictional little sister to Skiathos and Skopelos, the island used as the location for Mama Mia!
The setting was inspired by a holiday I took to Skiathos at the tender age of eighteen. Back then it was pretty much unheard of, although now of course it's very much on the tourist map.
The book is the story of three English women who almost accidentally buy a ramshackle B&B on a Greek island - their friendship is informed and inspired by my own real life friendship with my two best friends. It's not our story, but our friendship threads through the book.
In the book, the ladies discover a gin distillery in the cellar. I had great fun creating their signature G&T, I'm a bit of a gin-a-holic so it was a labour of love! I now grow my own rosemary, because I've learned that no G&T is complete without one.
I'm a complete romance junkie. If I'm not writing it, I'm reading it, or watching it, or singing (badly) about it. I cut my teeth on my gran's Mills and Boon's and never looked back.
I've always wanted to be a romance writer. One of my most prized possessions is a writers-tips cassette I sent away for from Mills and Boon when I was about fourteen! That was a lot of years ago and it took me a long time to get there, but it was worth the wait. I feel as if I have my dream job, and I've had a lot of other's up to now that I certainly didn't feel so fondly about!
I write under two names - Kat French and Kitty French. As Kat I write traditional romantic comedy, and as Kitty I write both steamy romance and paranormal screwball comedy. Switching it up keeps it interesting.
The Bed and Breakfast on the Beach is my thirteenth published book. Publication day doesn't get any mess nerve-wracking, but always involves a glass of something fizzy at the end of it.
