N. N. Light’s Book Heaven is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Isn’t that wonderful?
MANY CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY!
I’d like to introduce prolific author Heather Peck.
Question 1: Where were you ten years ago in relation to your author/writer career? If you weren’t writing, what were you doing?
In 2015 I had just stood down as Chair of Cambridgeshire Community Service National Health Service (NHS) Trust and become Deputy Chair of Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust. I was also Chair of the Dog Welfare Trust, a non-executive director of the UK Food Standards Agency and Chair of the UK Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) Wheat Committee. The only things I’d written for publication were a Report on the Independent Review of Dog Breeding and official codes of practice eg on the safe transport and storage of pesticides.
Question 2: Looking back on the past ten years, how has your writing grown?
I undertook the National Centre for Writing course – An Introduction to Crime Writing – in 2019. I enjoyed it very much and the feedback was very encouraging. In between volunteering as an adviser in Citizens Advice and in courts in the Witness Service, I wrote my first book in 2020 and started on a second. That first book, Secret Places, was published in February 2021 and the second, Glass Arrows, a few months later. Glass Arrows was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards prize for fiction in 2021, which was a huge boost!
Question 3: What are you doing now? How many books have you published?
Since that course in 2019 I have published 14 books: 7 novels in the DCI Greg Geldard Norfolk Mysteries series which began with Secret Places; 1 standalone thriller, Milestones, which won the Page Turner Book Award 2024 for best crime novel; 3 novellas in the Geldard series, and 3 children’s books.
In addition to the awards already mentioned, my books have won 6 Firebird Book Awards
Giveaway -
In celebration of our 10th anniversary, the authors have each donated a prize (sixty in total) and they range from free books to swag to gift cards.
Open internationally but some prizes are only open to US residents
Runs March 1 - 31, 2025
Winner will be drawn on April 1, 2025
Author Biography:
Heather Peck is the multi-award-winning author of the DCI Geldard Norfolk Mysteries and winner of the Page Turner Book Award for best crime novel 2024 ‘Milestones’.
She has been both agricultural policy adviser and farmer, NHS Trust chair and volunteer covid vaccinator. She lives in Norfolk with her partner and a menagerie of 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 hens and a rabbit.
Where can readers follow you:
My website: www.heatherpeckauthor.com
Also my Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Heather-Peck/author/B08TCDRQ4G?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/heatherpeckauthor