It's time for me to tempt you with a book or two… or maybe some of my WriteNOW Cards if you have a reader or writer friend you want to impress this Christmas! Read more

My latest short story collection, Nine Women: Short Stories is now available as an ebook for Kindle on Amazon. And this blog post reveals some of the ways this book became a happy surprise with a life of its own! Read more

An free extract from my short story The Runaways, part of a Trilogy of Short Love Stories I recently published. Enjoy! Read more

The opening extract from my short story, Tell Me a Story, which is available now as part of The Runaways: A Trilogy of Short Love Stories. Read more

Read the opening extract from It's Just A Smile, one of my short stories from my ongoing Twelve challenge. It's a short and bittersweet story about a woman who is crying into her cappuccino in coffee shop. So what is it that is making her cry? Read more

And I'm back! So I may have missed July - having a baby leaves you kind of busy for a few weeks - but I'm happy to say that August has seen me write and publish another short story as part of the ongoing Twelve challenge. I do have the read more

Read an extract from my first novella, called the Wait. A fast-paced, mysterious suspense story about a man who ends up sitting in an A&E waiting room in a busy London hospital with blood pouring from a cut in his face and a small mountain of secrets he's trying to hide from the man who sits next to him and refuses to leave. Read more

An extract from my short story That's What I Want To Say, a suspense-driven mystery with a twist, and the sixth story to be published as part of my Twelve collection of short stories which you can get for free if you're a newsletter reader. Read more

An extract from my latest short story, The Girl Who Would Be King, a story of sisterhood, playing in the sunshine and wild imaginations. Read more

Read an extract from my latest short story, Balloons, which is a contemporary fiction about a thirty-something year old woman who finds herself struggling to come to terms with the enormity of how her (wanted) pregnancy will change her life. Read more

Read an opening extract from the short story Leaving Rotterdam, historical fiction about a real event that shook the Netherlands in the late 19th century, the rise and fall of Lodewijk Pincoffs. Read more

The opening few chapters from my latest short story Together, Apart, a contempoary romance written in an unusual way… read more

An extract from the short story The Pink Flowers, the first of twelve short stories that will be published in 2015, a new and original story every month. Read more