Her favourite themes are historical and vampire fiction (sometimes both together) and her heroes are usually dark, brooding and passionate. She blames Emily Bronte for this. She writes both men with women and men with men. She often focuses on gay relationships because she firmly believes that the only thing better than one attractive man is two attractive men. Or possibly three.

She lives with a feline sidekick named Zachary, who has rather more interest in cat food than creating fiction. Zachary is dark and brooding and often assists the author at the laptop with varying degrees of success. They reside in authorly chaos as Scarlet skips from one project to another, depending on her mood.

Scarlet dreams of being able to write full time but her job as a talent scout for male models is a regrettable sacrifice required to pay her rent. It’s more glamorous than it sounds even if it involves long, hard hours.

Scarlet approves of: rock music, earl grey tea, the ocean, DVD box sets, birdwatching, elephants, cats and polar bears, muscular men, books and Jack Bauer.

She disapproves of almost everything else especially work, people and getting up early.

Despite her name, Scarlet Blackwell contains no artificial colourings.