I’ve lived in Northern Ireland for many years but I’m of mixed descent Scots/English. You could say I’ve had a varied employment history, working in the ceramics industry, small firm accountancy and also hospitality. But for the last few years I’ve concentrated on raising my family here in Northern Ireland.

From an early age I enjoyed both fact and fictional literature and spent many hours writing my own stories too.  I suppose like many other children I cut my teeth on the books such as the ever popular “Famous Five” series and such like. But very quickly my preferences changed and soon I was reading books like “The Pearl” and “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, “The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy, “Tristan and Isolde” and a whole range of Science Fiction.

But how did I make the jump to writing you might ask? Well, since becoming a mother I’ve have a lot less time and any book I’m going to read must grab my attention on the first page (it’s called a hook in the trade). For a while I felt that a large number of the books I bought just didn’t deliver, so one day I thought about the kind of book I would like to read and wrote down a few ideas.

In no time at all I had what would turn out to be the basic outline for my first book and the rest you could say is history, which brings me to another subject; genealogy.

For almost seven years I’ve been researching my Scottish roots and that has proved to be an added motivation for my foray into writing as my debut novel “The Sands of Carsaig” has it’s roots set in Scotland.

In addition to genealogy, I have an interest in history, science, nature, the www, blogging and food.

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                                                            Night Chorus – the sequel to The Sands of Carsaig.