Background
Although I'm a freelance journalist and write for newspapers and magazines both in Britain and abroad, I'm also an accidental author of two teenage novels - but more about that in a minute.
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I write mainly about travel, art and culture, and seem to have done loads of celebrity interviews with people like Mario Testino, Marie Helvin, Paloma Bailey (David Bailey's daughter) and Naomi Campbell (see covers above.) This is, of course, brilliant... Sometimes I'm lucky enough to be able to combine my travel writing with a celebrity interview which gives my pieces a very different and unusual angle. Some of the famous people I've interviewed I already knew, because before I become a freelance writer, five years ago, I worked as a creative director on a number of women's monthly magazines including Cosmopolitan which gave me a good start in the world of glamour. Soon after I went on to work on Company magazine and then I teamed up with mega successful Cosmo editor Linda Kelsey and we launched SHE magazine. During my time as a Creative Director I worked, and continue to work closely with some of the world's leading photographers, like David Bailey, Mario Testino, Clive Arrowsmith John Swannel and others.
The idea of writing a book, didn't really occur to me until a couple of years after I went freelance when I met Brenda Gardner, the managing director of Piccadilly Press and she asked me to write my first book Making Sense which, although it's fiction, is based on my own experiences.
I'm a Greek Cypriot and came to England as a young kid, and the shock of coming to such a different country with no friends and no language has never quite left me. Talking of these things to Brenda, she suggested that I should write a book about those experiences, and that's how I came to write my first book.
The second one, which is published in May 2005, is called Bitter Sweet and it's a sequel, as lot of the people who'd read the first wanted to learn more about the book's heroine, Julia. I love writing books and I plan, fingers crossed, to write lots more!
