Having left her job as an English teacher to concentrate on writing, Maggie has had success with the following:

• Short story Renaissance published in Saucy Shorts for Chefs (Accent Press)

• Short story September in Italy published in Quality Women’s Fiction

• Short story The Love Bug published in Sexy Shorts For The Beach (Accent Press)

• Short story Breaking and Entering published in The Yellow Room

• Eight freelance articles published in The Hampshire Chronicle

Maggie's first novel Cyprus Blues is published as an e-book with Barnes and Noble. She has started a third novel - a murder mystery - and has a sequel in mind for Walkies, which she plans to write as she and her husband and dog travel through Spain and Morocco in a Mobile Home in the summer.

Maggie also reports on the annual Essaouira Gnawa and World Music Festival, Morocco for the internet via her blog MaggieKnutson.com.

She also posts photographs on Flickr.

Having spent an age trying to find an agent and publisher but to no avail, she has taken matters into her own hands and published this novel herself. If any agents or publishers would like to sign her up she can be contacted on her email site knutsonmaggie@hotmail.com