As a mature student, I perceived a contemporary problem of some fellow students - leaving university with a massive debt around their necks, and engaging in the sex trade in a bid to pay their expenses as they went along. This issue focussed me as I wrote my debut novel 'Fairytales Don’t Come True'.

Tales around the fireside instilled my lifelong love of storytelling. My grandmother didn’t believe in televisions, she believed in the power of a child’s imagination... Read the literary origins of Jo Priestley, author of The Women of Old Yorkshire Collection

Editing: what is the process, what are the different types, what options do you have, and why do we love or hate it so?