"I showed them to a friend and he encouraged me to pick the idea up again and said I should show them to publishers, which I did.
"One of the publishers said, 'Look, we really love this. Can you write 18 stories, six books?'"
The first book is published on 2 May, with one new story out every month until October.
Halliwell appreciates some people might think she didn't write the books.
She said: "All I can say is, one, I love reading and I've always written the lyrics when I was in the Spice Girls.
"That's my favourite bit and coming up with concepts. I'm quite an imaginative person.
"You can only read the books and you just realise that actually that silly sense of humour could only come from me. I don't think anyone's that mad."
'No more singing'
'Books my work'
Geri Halliwell says she started writing the children's books four years ago.
She said: "I wrote a few stories when I was out in LA and then I shelved them for a couple of years.
"I showed them to a friend and he encouraged me to pick the idea up again and said I should show them to publishers, which I did.
"One of the publishers said, 'Look, we really love this. Can you write 18 stories, six books?'"
The first book is published on 2 May, with one new story out every month until October.
Halliwell appreciates some people might think she didn't write the books.
She said: "All I can say is, one, I love reading and I've always written the lyrics when I was in the Spice Girls.
"That's my favourite bit and coming up with concepts. I'm quite an imaginative person.
"You can only read the books and you just realise that actually that silly sense of humour could only come from me. I don't think anyone's that mad."
'No more singing'
"I showed them to a friend and he encouraged me to pick the idea up again and said I should show them to publishers, which I did.
"One of the publishers said, 'Look, we really love this. Can you write 18 stories, six books?'"
The first book is published on 2 May, with one new story out every month until October.
Halliwell appreciates some people might think she didn't write the books.
She said: "All I can say is, one, I love reading and I've always written the lyrics when I was in the Spice Girls.
"That's my favourite bit and coming up with concepts. I'm quite an imaginative person.
"You can only read the books and you just realise that actually that silly sense of humour could only come from me. I don't think anyone's that mad."
'No more singing'
