I write about diverse characters, with a literary vein running through my contemporary fiction.
I’ve created this to share the “bits of string” writers are known for gathering: the dangling ends of intriguing plot webs, a desperate character’s unraveling threads…
Events:
November 2024: I’ll be reading my story “Calloused” at the Stroud Short Stories event for Stroud Book Festival. This event has a family theme, and the family in my story begins to reckon with the defenses they’ve built up, some wittingly and some unwittingly.
December 2023: Funny Pearls published another story of mine, “The Late, Great Jimmy Stewart’s Video Guide to Emotions.” It gives the perspective of a young adult with autism, who uses classic Jimmy Stewart films to learn how to express her emotions. Have a read–it’s great fun and you might see things a bit differently after.
March 2023: Twinkies, Volvos, Salt-n-Pepa, and of course pie… My short story “Pie a la Mode” was published by Funny Pearls on their website. A story with generous helpings of humour and heart, it even won a prize! Don’t miss out, read it here.
September 2022: My surreal tale “The Flat Earth Society” was published in Stroud Short Stories Anthology, Volume Three. A seamstress, a sailing crew, a soldier and an heiress welcome you to the world’s edge. Reviewed as an “homage to the power of imagination,” you can see the video here and purchase it with other wondrous stories.
June 2022: What about the growing number of young Americans who have survived not just one, but two school shootings? I imagined how this might feel, and the resulting story “The Albatross of Albany High School” appeared in The Phare.
Work-in-Progress: What am I rattling away on at the moment? Soooo glad you asked. The Gospel of Eve is Eve’s side of the story, after rather a long wait. What happened after leaving Eden, how did it feel to raise generations that would never know paradise on earth, and why did she take that fruit in the first place? Already described as “Astonishing! Unique… It’s lush but angry too. A heady combination.” See blog posts on my creation process here and here (and just keep on reading).