Samantha worked in publishing for fifteen years.
She first began working for Penguin in South Africa and then moved to Puffin books in London.
When a friend mentioned that Egmont were looking for new authors to write books for young girls, Samantha started writing straight away.
Her first novel Kisses for Lulu was published this year and another is on the way in 2011.
She was born in Zambia, grew up in South Africa and now lives in England with her husband, two small children and six ailing tropical fish.
- Samantha would write books on the train on her way to work
- Samantha was once charged by an elephant, and the vehicle she was travelling in wouldn't start so she couldn't make a quick getaway!
- Knitting is one of Samantha's hobbies
- Samantha could eat an entire chocolate cake on her own, and reckons that she would do it in a nanosecond but can't stand the thought of the horror on other people's faces at her unashamed gluttony
- She's been hooked up to a lie detector test!
- Talented Samantha made her own wedding dress
- Samantha likes the idea of being a trained assassin!
