When Maisie Joined the Fold

Posted on 28th November, 2024
It was during this week back in 2021, shortly after publication of Christmas with the Railway Girls, that I was finally able to announce on my Maisie Thomas FB page that I also write as Susanna Bavin and Polly Heron.
 
Before that, Penguin, my Railway Gils publisher, had wanted it to be kept a secret because they wanted to establish the Railway Girls series without any other ties, so I was asked to keep quiet about my identity.
 
 
Keeping the secret wasn’t always easy. As Susanna, I blog every week but I was unable to blog about this exciting development in my writing career and I’m sure that readers who were used to me writing two books a year wondered why I had suddenly gone down to one … whereas I was in fact writing three a year!
 
But I don’t want to make it sound as if everything was difficult. A small handful of writer friends and book bloggers were in on the secret and gave me staunch support. I couldn’t have managed without them.

 

I also want to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to all my readers. Whichever of my three author names you discovered first, I hope it has led you on to read and enjoy books fom the other two as well.

 

 

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