Welcome to my website!

Thankyou for stopping by! Books, stories - I don't think that my life would be the same without them! I read, read and read some more. I love the thrill of the chase when you read and you race with a story to the end. I love the pictures a story can create inside your head and I love the feeling of being somewhere else and being someone else. Then there's the writing and that's when the fun begins!

 

Picture books, first readers and novels for ages 12 plus are what I write and the inspiration can come from anywhere. Sometimes, I can find an object and wonder about it. I'll read a newspaper or hear about something on the tv. Sometimes I can look at pictures and see a story.

 

If you look at the sunlit tree-made tunnel, I wonder what you see?

Where are you going?

Who is waiting at the end of it?

 

 

 

I read, I write and I talk to schools and festivals about how to write. I'd love to hear from you. You can contact me here.

Pages to the People

Hello Visitor!

"Grandad's Bench is a heart-warming tale which never steps over the line dividing love from sentimentality. It will appeal to young children who know about the special bond that often exists between the young and the old." Carousel


"This attractive book is the warming story of a lonely child, new to a cold rainy climate, who loses the precious toy elephant that is his confidant... a ‘must’ for our schools and homes."
- Children's Books Ireland - Siddharth and Rinki


I am networks co-ordinator for the SCBWI. I run children's writing critique groups in Crowle and Lincoln and York. I organise events with publishing industry professionals - authors, editors and agents and work with the Lincoln Book Festival every year to this end.

 

Please see the SCBWI website for details of al the unmissable events!