Mel Penrose

About Mel Penrose

Mel Penrose is the pseudonym of writing partners Mike Truscott and Francesca Hanikova. They met in 1982 when Francesca joined the Falmouth Packet newspaper in Cornwall as a trainee journalist and Mike was her supervising chief reporter. After several years in newspaper journalism, both went on to successful careers in public relations but continued to write - and stayed in touch. Meeting up to enjoy another shared passion - walking the Cornish coastal path - Francesca persuaded Mike to dust off an unfinished draft for a story, Lottery Loveboat was finally written and found a publisher, and Mel Penrose was born.