I was born and brought up in Birmingham. As a teenager, I won a holiday to France, Spain and Portugal for writing essays and poetry in a newspaper competition. Despite this promising start in the literary world, I took scientific qualifications and spent more than thirty years as a manufacturing consultant, technical writer and small business owner, publishing a number of pharmaceutical text books and editing a technical journal along the way.

I returned to creative writing in 2006 and since then, I have written short stories and poetry for competitions—and have had a few wins, several honourable mentions and some short-listing.  I am also published in several anthologies.

Under the Chudleigh Phoenix Publications imprint, I’ve published four solo collections of short stories and co-authored another two with my friend and fellow author, Sharon Cook. I also write and lecture on Author Business Foundations, business skills for writers running their own small business.

My debut novel, Gorgito’s Ice Rink, was published in 2014 and was Runner-Up in Writing Magazine’s 2015 Self-Published Book of the Year Awards. I next wrote a series of thrillers set in the sometimes-murky world of international pharmaceuticals: Counterfeit!,  Deception!, Corruption!, and Retribution!

Currently I am writing The Coombesford Chronicles, cozy crime set in a typical English village: Murder at Mountjoy Manor, Villainy at the Village Store, Calamity at Coombesford Church and Silenced at the Summer Social are all published. Book 5 in the series, Atrocity at Ardleigh Academy is coming out on 1st October.

Having left Birmingham to study in London, I lived for more than twenty years in Wilmington, Kent. In 2007, I moved to the South West of England, where I live with my husband, Michael, in a converted granary sited picturesquely on the banks of, and occasionally within the path of, a small stream. In 2012, I closed down my technical consultancy in order to concentrate full-time on my writing. In the same year, I graduated from Exeter University with an MA in Creative Writing

I am a member of Chudleigh Writers’ Circle; Exeter Writers; Teignmouth Writers; and the Crime Writers Association. Since 2020, I have been a member of the online Women in Publishing community and was honoured to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2026. I also spend far too much time on Facebook, but have met some wonderful members of the writing community as a result of all this networking.

When I am not writing, I am a keen reader and sometime singer (I have been a member of several local choirs over the years). I also enjoy live theatre of any kind, share with my husband a love of fine dining, and am a real sucker for the kind of country house hotel where you can kick off your shoes and curl up with a book in front of a log fire.

I would like you to believe I am also a keen walker and swimmer, enjoying the beauties of Dartmoor and the South Devon coastline—but, as a writer, I’m good at making things up.