Writer for TV, radio and magazines.  Also a novelist and poet.

(I know, greedy, greedy, greedy.)

I've written three novels:  Immaculate Misconceptions, Premature Infatuation and Reading Between the Lies all published by Simon & Schuster, all a bit of a laugh.   My fourth, Revenge of the Ten Pound Poms, not yet published, is a black comedy, based on a family secret (not such a secret now of course). If you've got time on your hands you can read some of it on this site, or have a taster of my recently completed children's novel, I So Did Not! 

As a journalist, I write on sex, relationships, and parenting usually with a bit of humour.  I've written regularly for Cosmopolitan, Psychologies and She but there are lots of others I've written the odd piece for and a few newspapers too (like I said, greedy).  For several years I was also contributing editor on Woman’s Journal in the UK and Redbook in the USA.

Most of all I like writing comedy for TV and radio.  I was co-writer with Llewella Gideon on the The Little Big Woman Show for Radio 4 (three series, loved every minute of it) and we are currently working on a comedy drama for TV.  I've also written for children's TV: for the internationally acclaimed children's series Street Monsters (animation is as wonderful as radio - your characters are never constrained by the budget), and several episodes of the children's TV show Kerching! (BBC1 and CBBC).  I've also worked on several comedy sketch shows including The Real McCoy and Blouse and Skirt for BBC2.  .

I started my career with some funny and raunchy poems which appeared in Cosmopolitan in the UK, USA and Australia for the next ten years.  Early on I was invited on to Woman's Hour to read some of them, including Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous as her Brother, and by good luck an editor from Simon & Schuster was listening.  She went on to commission my first novel, Immaculate Misconceptions and two more followed.  Since then that particular poem has appeared in numerous anthologies, been broadcast on BBC2 and Radio 4, and included in coursework for A Level and HM Prisons. None of the other poems, just that one.  Weird.

Click on the left to see some of the poems or novels. Or have a look at a feature on happiness which appeared in Redbook magazine in the USA and prompted their most enthusiastic reader response ever.  (I hope that means lots of readers liked it, not just one going mental.)