NIGEL MAY
The celebrity world provides fact and fiction fodder for Nigel May, he tells Margaret James
AUTHOR PROFILE
Margaret James
Over the past few years, novelist, journalist and television presenter Nigel May has made a big success of writing stories about the three things that really fascinate him – glamour and glitz and the world of celebrity.
But what made him want to go down this particular route?
‘I worked for many years as a showbiz journalist before I turned to writing novels, and writing has always been a huge passion of mine,’ Nigel says. ‘While I was in junior school – I must have been about ten – I wrote a mini-novel about a man being stranded on a desert island, which I proudly read out to the class. I studied journalism at college in London and then moved into the world of magazines. I am fairly obsessed with celebrity, so I was very happy to spend my days interviewing stars of television and film and also pop stars galore.
“People sometimes assume glam fiction is all fluff and nonsense and full of sex, but in my work there is also murder, mystery, deceit, betrayal, love, lust and in my sixth novel, Revenge, plenty of revenge and revelation.”