Hi and welcome!
I’m a glass-half-full kind of girl, and optimism is my default setting.
Joy and persistence are underrated superpowers, my friends! And I refuse to treat happiness as secondary, no matter what life throws at us. I’m endlessly impressed by people’s ability to absorb shock, disappointment, and grief, and still show up the next day. There’s a stubbornness to it, quiet and deeply human. Falling apart is easy, but reassembling yourself takes imagination. Lightness is not a reward for surviving darkness; it’s part of surviving it. That’s why I believe that humor, warmth, and tenderness belong in the middle of hardship—not after it.
The Art of Not Hardening
Because I refuse to harden when it’s hard to breathe, I write characters who tease when everything is tense, and cling to wit (and love, obviously) the way others cling to their armor or withdraw into themselves. They are characters who won’t become solemn just because I insist on making their lives difficult, and instead will start to wield banter like a drawn sword. I guess Jimmy Carr said it best: “You can’t have an easy life and a great character.”
My stories are built around endurance, imperfect courage, and those fleeting instants when everything feels briefly, unexpectedly right. I write toward hope without pretending things are easy. I’m drawn to that place where emotion is messy and contradictory, where pain and joy link arms together.
If you finish one of my stories with a warmed heart and half a smile on your face, then I’ve done my job. ;)
The Credentials, Briefly
The official part.
I started writing professionally in 2001, when I was a screenwriter for TV shows in Paris, where I was born and raised (* see Side note below).
On the page, this translates into a strong focus on dialogue, pacing, and emotional structure. 24 Hours of the Phoenix is my debut novel and was released under my former name in 2018. It wasn’t so much a career shift as a return to a long-standing habit: reading voraciously and feeling the inevitable urge to write. Life (and four kids—don’t ask) slowed that rhythm for a while, but the hunger for stories never really left.
(* Side note)
I still maintain, with great Parisian confidence, that the French capital is the most beautiful city in the world. For the better part of two decades, however, I have been very happy admiring it from a distance, namely the Caribbean, which offers a rather convincing perspective.
Cours Florent
Graduated from the French drama school, where I also studied dramaturgy.
NYU School of Professional Studies
Trained in creative writing.
Women’s Fiction Writers Association
Proud member.
SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques)
Member since 2001.
Behind the scenes
Proof that sometimes I stop writing.
Quick questions
Short answers this time.
Plotter or pantser?
Both, depending on how much coffee is involved.
Romance or fantasy?
Yes.
Favorite part of writing?
Dialogue. Characters who bicker are my love language.
Least favorite part?
The blank page, and the middle of the book.
Do you kill characters?
Only when they deserve it. Or when the plot does.
Next book?
Ask me again after the next coffee.
Why English, since you’re French?
Why not?
Why, though?
Fine. I read 100+ novels a year, and 99+ of them are in English. That’s the voice in my head.