CAZ FREAR
The author tells Dolores Gordon Smith how her debut, Sweet Little Lies, won the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition.
‘Iwas a prolific writer as a child. I kept diaries and wrote letters to newspapers. I had penpals and penned (awful) pop songs. However, by the time I hit my late teens, my output had dwindled as going out and boys and London life gradually took over. ‘An odd catalyst led me back to writing in my early thirties. One night, thumbing through a copy of Paul McKenna’s Think and Grow Rich, I came across his idea that the things you were naturally good at as a child are the things that will bring you the greatest success in life. My first thought wasn’t, “I’ll write a novel and become rich!” but it definitely got me thinking about writing again. About how much I’d loved it and how I’d let it slide.