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I started writing as a hobby while living and working in the music business in New York in 1995. TO BE SOMEONE was first published back in 2000, the first novel to come with its own CD soundtrack (on Virgin Records). Then came ARE YOU MY MOTHER?, LIFESAVER and GAMES PEOPLE PLAY.
I now have a new lease of my writing life, publishing thrillers with Mark Edwards. In Feb 2011, we published our first co-written novel, KILLING CUPID, a stalker thriller that reached No.2 on Amazon.co.uk. In May 2011, we published our second novel, CATCH YOUR DEATH, which became the first ever fully-independent British book to reach No.1 on Amazon. It stayed at No.1 for a month. We sold almost 100,000 copies of the two titles.
Both novels are now being published in new editions by HarperCollins. Publishing on Kindle has changed our lives and we are hugely grateful to everyone who has bought either of our books.
We love hearing from readers and always respond. We can be contacted via email: markandlouise@me.com or Twitter: @mredwards and @louisevoss1.
12 Facts about Mark Edwards and Louise Voss - one of which is false! If you think you can guess which, send us an email:
1. We met after Mark was in a TV documentary in the late 90s about wannabe writers and Louise sent an email to his agent saying she empathized with his plight.
2. They didn't meet until two years later, when Louise invited Mark to her birthday meal. He sat next to a top person from the publishing world who was wearing eyeliner despite being in his 40s.
3. One of the perks of being Louise's friend in the early noughties was her Groucho membership. This has, sadly, now lapsed.
4. Louise used to work for Eurovision winner Sandie Shaw, but her best celebrity encounter was with Justin Bieber, who gave her a hug.
5. Mark went to the same (non-private) school as Stella McCartney and once sold Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys a bag of sprouts.
6. THE ANTIDOTE, which is the follow up to CATCH YOUR DEATH, was plotted over several meetings in a Waterloo pizza place, which is a popular hangout for middle-aged men who like snogging their secretaries.
7. 23% of emails between Mark and Louise consist of the single acronym IKR.
8. Mark used to have a hamster called Chips who once bit Louise on her left elbow.
9. It took Mark six attempts to pass his driving test, at the age of 40.
10. Their favourite TV moment of all time was when Fatima Whitbread got a cockroach stuck up her nose.
11. They both live in south London, but miles apart, and have four kids and three cats between them. All of the cats were infested with fleas at some point in 2011.
12. They use Dropbox to co-write, using a document called 'the Master'. Whenever Mark is editing this he texts Louise to say he is 'in the Master'. This makes him giggle because it sounds a bit rude.
