Heidi-Jo Swain

With less than two weeks to go until publication day, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has already ordered a copy of Walking on Sunshine! The publishing team are thrilled with the numbers and chart placement and so am I! You could say that we're all walking on sunshine! Here's a link to the Simon and Schuster page if you'd like to discover a little more about what summer in the new setting of Willowell is all about - Walking on Sunshine With just a couple of weeks left before...

The weather might be cloudy and blustery as I'm typing this, but I can definitely feel that spring is in the air and I know that's the same for a lot of you because you've been in touch to tell me about your wonderful new beginnings. Sharing your fresh start stories with me has got me thinking about my writing journey, particularly the beginning of it, when I was juggling my writing time with taking care of a young family and working as an SEN TA. It had taken me a very long time to find the...

Hello Loves! It has been quite some time since I posted here and that's because I've been properly Wintering. It isn't something I've done before - taken the whole of the winter season to think, reflect and recalibrate - but it has been so incredibly valuable, I'll definitely be doing it every year going forward. Is this something you do? As well as an intense and therapeutic life check in, I've also been thinking about my writing and all the things that come along with it. Events, this blog,...