I live in the English Lakes with a collection of cats, dogs and a husband. Until recently I worked for the University of Cumbria but now write freelance. Since then I've won prizes in several literary competitions and many of my stories have been published in popular magazines including The People's Friend, The Weekly News and The New Writer. Other publishing credits include Space and Time, Expanded Horizons, Bards and Sages, GlassFire Magazine, Absent Willow Review, Big Pulp, Outercast, The Ranfurly Review, Woman's Weekly, Little Sisters Anthology, Delivered, Secret Attic, Sniplits, Abandoned Towers, Stories that Lift, Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine, Everyday Fiction, Yippee Magazine, Bottom of the World. Others have been published in the Sonar 4 and the Absent Willow Review Anthologies and the Out of Line Human Rights Anthology 2009. I enjoy writing all kinds of stories but my favourite genre is humour - particulary satire. Politicians, celebrities and line dancers make wonderful targets...

My first novel Middlewitch has just been published in ebook format by DROLLERIE PRESS and can be downloaded at a discount via this link or shortly at Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket and Fictionwise. It will be available soon as an audio book and hopefully should appear in print by the beginning of next year. Middlewitch could be described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jeeves and Wooster and was inspired by life in a small English village - although naturally there are no witches or ghosts there. As far as I know…

Alicia is a young witch with a mission: to protect Middlewitch, a sleepy little hamlet consisting mostly of a church, a senior citizens' home, a pub and two constables. You'd think such a small town wouldn't have problems with dark forces, but you'd be wrong. With the help of her cats, the Women's Institute and the Vicar, Alicia confronts daemons, vampires, an American... and even the City. She finally has a boyfriend, but is she able to share her unorthodox life with James? And more importantly, is she strong enough to learn to get on with his mother?

A full list of writing credits is available here.

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