Lesley Cookman
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Lesley started writing almost as soon as she could read, and filled many Woolworth’s exercise books with pony stories until she was old enough to go out with boys. Since she’s been grown up, following a varied career as a model, air stewardess, actor and disc jockey, she’s written short fiction and features for a variety of magazines, achieved an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales, taught writing for both Kent Adult Education and the WEA and edited the first Sexy Shorts collection of short stories from Accent Press in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign. She currently has two series, The Libby Sarjeant series and The Alexandrians, an Edwardian mystery series. She is also the author of several pantomimes, a book on How To Write a Pantomime and a Music Hall musical. She has also written romances under the name Rosina Lesley. She has four grown up children, two grandchildren, a cat and lives on the Kent coast of England. Lesley is a member of the Society of Authors and the Crime Writers’ Association.