After a career in marketing, I became a full-time author in 2016, publishing three novels under the pen name GD Harper. I have attended an Arvon residential writing course and also the UK Festival of Writing, as well as Jericho Writers' course on self-editing. I have been a previous Page Turner award finalist and both a Wishing Shelf Book Award finalist and Red Ribbon winner, been shortlisted for the Lightship Prize and been longlisted for the UK Novel Writing Award. In 2021,
My books have reached the top 400 in overall Amazon paid-for sales and have garnered over 200 reviews with an average rating of 4.3. I have spoken at numerous literary festivals and have been promoted by WH Smith, selling 800 paperbacks on a 12-store book-signing tour in 2019. I run training courses on self-publishing marketing and Facebook advertising, and provide mentoring for debut authors for whom English is not their first language.
