The Shape I'm In - Monica McInerney

AUTHOR Monica McInerney oscillates between two sizes, depending on where she is in the writing cycle.

“A dressmaker friend says I have a ‘writing’ shape and a ‘promoting’ shape. I lock myself away in my attic for months while I write my books, usually over the colder months, not exercising enough and fattening up in the same way a cat adds extra fur over winter,” she says.

“During the editing process in spring and summer, I become very active again, walking every day, slowly shedding the kilos in time to fit properly into my clothes again for my book tour. I really need to find a happy medium. A treadmill desk, perhaps.”