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I was tidying up my Google Drive recently and I found this post! I originally wrote it as a guest post for someone else’s blog but I had a great Q&A session with my Debut Author group last week and a lot of these topics came up… so I thought it was worth a repost here!

I LOVE working with historical non-fiction authors - I have so much admiration for the amount of work and research that these writers have to put in.

Oh, thrillers… the twisty plots, the unreliable narrators, the heart-in-your-mouth pacing. What’s not to love?

I want to start this article off by saying that if you have been offered a traditional publishing deal for your book, then this is a MASSIVE DEAL.

If you’re an author, it’s tempting to think of your website as a static thing. You build it once then leave it. A bio, a list of books, a contact page, job done! 

I’m so excited for today’s chat! Emma Christie and I go way back - we share an agent and I also built her website - and I’ve always admired her energy (and fitness too, this is the woman who walked all the way from Scotland to the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival?!).

I had an email from one of my most recent website clients recently asking me if there was anything she should be doing to back up her new website.

Happy new year to you and welcome to 2026! I have just turned 45, which feels like a weird milestone. I turned 40 during covid so it was a bit of a non-event, but 45 really does feel… well, grown-up.

I know I start this post the same way every year but I truly cannot believe that 2025 has almost come to an end! What a year.

2025 is nearly at an end and I am excited to be bringing you my last project spotlight post of the year - which also happens to be my very final website project this year too!