Judith Wills was born in Oxfordshire, the youngest child of a telephone salesman and an ex-primary schoolteacher. She was a painfully shy child. Her first memory is of hiding inside her mother’s voluminous Fifties skirt on Banbury High Street to avoid being seen by one of her friends. Well, she was only ten.

After a partially-successful education at various Grammar schools in Oxfordshire and later at Oxford College of Technology, Judith left home (or homes - she and her divorced mother had lived in at least eight different places since she was 11) and moved to London at the age of 17; a bold move on her part as she admits that previously, even getting on the bus to cross Oxford on her own had been a trial.

What had sustained Wills through her tricky and lonely childhood and teenage years was an inner determination that life could be better and should be more fun. She also had a complete passion for pop music, pop stars and the glamour and excitement of show business, using the make-believe world of music, TV, and magazines whenever life got too tough to bear.

At the age of 14, she wrote an English school essay titled Castles in the Air, describing her dream to be a writer and work in Fleet Street, meet her favourite pop stars, go to the USA ‘and write books as a side interest’.

Surprisingly, it all came true. She landed a job on the top pop magazine of the day – Fabulous – at the tail end of the Swinging Sixties, and spent several (mostly) happy years at the heart of the London media and show business scene.

Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick is the true story of those times. But it isn’t Wills’s first book. Her years as a show business writer ended when, at the age of 26, she decided to move out of London and back to her ‘country bumpkin’ roots.

She began a new career as a food and health journalist, magazine editor and author. Since then she has written over 20 books on food and health including the best-selling The Food Bible and The Diet Bible (Quadrille) and she has a thriving career as ‘The Diet Detective’, and a website www.thedietdetective.net

Now, with over 2 million books sold worldwide, she has written more best-selling diet and healthy lifestyle titles than any other British author.

Judith wrote Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick after the title came to her while walking down the backstairs of her rambling old home, carrying a load of laundry. “I began laughing at the memory of some of the things that happened to me all those years ago, and the next minute the washing was abandoned and I was at my computer, typing furiously.”

Wills lives in Herefordshire with her husband Tony and has two grown-up sons, Will and Chris, and three stepsons. She enjoys walking, cooking and gardening – and is still as much in love with pop music as she was in her teens.

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