ABOUT
SAMANTHA LEE HOWE
USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, SCREENWRITER, BROADCASTER
‘The girl least likely to succeed who rewrote her own future’ Daily Express
Samantha Lee Howe has everyone talking. She has beaten all the odds to become a best-selling author topping the USA Today book charts with her novel The Stranger in our Bed She has Hollywood talking as her debut as screenwriter of the film of the same name has become an international hit.
Samantha is also in demand in broadcasting for her wit and down to earth opinions. In addition she has become a survivor ambassador for IDAS, the Yorkshire domestic abuse charity.
‘It all feels like a dream,’ says Manchester-born Samantha who left school at 16 with no qualifications and was voted the least likely to succeed. She struggled to make a living working as everything from a kiss-a-gram to a secretary before training as a hairdresser in the evenings.
Sam entered a dysfunctional marriage to a man 27 years her senior, and gave birth to her beautiful daughter, Linzi. Samantha’s dreams within the relationship were crushed by her controlling and demanding husband, however, Samantha had begun to pen short stories and poems, which earned her a place at Bolton University, studying for a BA in English and Writing for Performance.
Writing was a way to escape from reality, and her husband’s clutches who saw her endeavours as ‘a total waste of time!’ Despite all this negativity, Samantha graduated with a BA Hons, and went on to escape the marriage, divorcing her husband, and moving to North Wales.
Samantha taught English to ‘A’ Level, but just knew it was never going to be enough. In 2007 she began her professional writing career with her first novel, and has never looked back.
In February 2020, Samantha’s first psychological thriller, The Stranger in Our Bed, was released by HarperCollins, One More Chapter imprint, and immediately caused a stir in the industry. This was followed in June 2020 with the signing of a three-book deal for an explosive spy thriller trilogy, The House of Killers (The House of Killers (Book 1), Kill Or Die (Book 2) and Kill A Spy (Book 3)). The titles were all released in 2021. Pitched as Killing Eve meets Jason Bourne, the books chronicle a nerve-shredding, enemies to lovers, tale that simmers with obsession.
Samantha is now in a happy marriage to second husband, David J Howe, and is also a Patron of the advocacy charity POhWER, which gives support to those who are often socially excluded.
Press: Steven Smith 07969106222 spman@btinternet.com
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DAILY EXPRESS ARTICLE ON SAMANTHA (Click to link to online version)
VOUS MAGAZINE (March 2023) ARTICLE ON SAMANTHA
