My Story

Behind the Words

I can often be seen devouring the latest YA fiction has to offer, but I didn’t really fall in love with reading until I discovered Jaqueline Wilson at about age 10. Prompting me to recite her career path, as a magazine editor turned author, to anyone who asked: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’

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In my last year of primary school, I became infatuated with the publication world, creating several editions of a hand-written magazine called ‘Gloss’ to pass around classmates during break times. Meanwhile, the thought of being an author didn’t really interest me. Every story I wrote was a clumsy ‘adaptation’ of Wilson’s writing style, used to depict my childish fantasies of magical heroines saving the Earth.

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But slowly, I began to love creating my own worlds - particularly ones that taught something to its readers. My early work was full of morals about as subtle as one of Tracy Beaker’s tantrums.

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Today, my pieces largely explore issues prevalent in the modern world, alongside more fantastical and other-worldly elements in my creative fiction. My opinions on a topic often manifest themselves as dialogue or a key argument in a feature. Whether fact or fiction, I aim to challenge prejudices through my work in the hope that readers will become more open-minded in their everyday lives.

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This mixture of real issues and fantastical settings has allowed me to develop my craft as a storyteller, along with my knowledge of the wider world and my ability to report on it. With every piece, I aim to inform as well as entertain.

To find out more or to discuss a potential project, please don’t hesitate to contact me.