The daughter of book printer and a bookbinder, fiction writer Martine was born into the book business.<br>At age four, her family moved from London to the Norfolk coast, where she currently works for the NHS and continues ‘But Once’ the power positive absent healing practice she started in 1996.<br>Martine is a Creative Writing Degree student at the Open University and author of urban fantasy contemporary romance and contemporary fantasy cozy series focusing on the story of friendship.<br>With a connection to the spiritual world, the paranormal and the kind of magic that comes from the power of positive thinking, Martine considers writing a book about magic as her contribution to making the world a better place.<br>Married with four children, four grandchildren (two on either side of the Atlantic), and a highly strung German/Belgian Shepherd, her limited spare time is spent reading cozy crime, practical magic novels or stories of the awakening spiritual.<br>Such is the life of the English book writer.