p.d.r. lindsay wrote her first 'novel' aged seven, an attempt to persuade her parents to buy her a pony! It didn't work, but she'd discovered that writing and reading were an escape from her unhappy family life. She could create people who loved her and wonderful imaginative places to live in in her mind. Poetry was her first love, then, for her children, stories and plays, and finally stories from her adult imagination for herself and adult readers.

p.d.r. lindsay prefers historical stories for novels because she finds she can say things to readers in historical settings which readers might not accept in modern settings. She likes her readers to enjoy the company of her characters, and think about the situations they find themselves in. She also loves to travel and find unusual settings for her stories, and then research to find a kernel of fact to grow her stories.