Milly Johnson

Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. As well as being an author of 6 published novels, she is also a copywriter for the greetings card industry, a columnist, after dinner speaker, poet and a trainee broadcaster for local radio.

She wrote her first book 'Judith in the Land of Buns, Biscuits and Cakes' whilst still at school - an opus that remains tragically unpublished. It was only when a ex-boss called Barnsley 'A Joke Town' that she resolved to write a book about Barnsley folk and to show that the town is actually quite a nice, friendly place to grow up and live in.

She writes about love, life, friendships, rather nice food, a little bit of magic and, in her latest book - An Autumn Crush - wrestlers. For essential research purposes she has to suffer the ordeal of mixing with the WWE backstage twice a year.

When not writing, she is usually shouting at her two sons to put things AWAY, feeding the pet cats which are obligatory for a middle-aged woman with no partner, or being walked by her Eurasier dog Teddy, who also has a column in the local paper and gets paid more than she does.

Milly's website is www.millyjohnson.com and she blogs at www.daftoldbag.blogspot.com