About Me

Since beginning a comprehensive writing course with The Writers Bureau in 2001, my articles and short stories have been published in a variety of magazines in the UK. The magazines include Heritage, Scottish Field, The Lady and People’s Friend. 

In 2005 two of my short stories were included in quite different anthologies. The first story, A Ghost at the Vicarage. was in an International Anthology, while the second appeared in Café Ole – Too Hot To Handle, which was launched in Glasgow. 

My first published novel was, The Trojan Project, an exciting adventure thriller, set in the Cheviot Hills. It was followed by Divorcees.Biz, a novel of fun and romance and then Only Twelve Days, a delightful novel about two people who meet, but are too shy to say how they feel about each other. I then  put together twelve of my published short stories in an anthology, which is now called, A Surprise for Christine.                                                                                     

Since then, I began writing a series of novels set on Tyneside, my home town. Murder on Tyneside was the first in the series. Death on Tyneside, Vengeance on Tyneside and A Mystery on Tyneside followed. 

 I am a member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Women Writer’s and Journalists. 

I created this website, simply to tell you about me and my writing. At school, my compositions, or essays, were never very good, and I really had to struggle to get any good grades. The problem was, I could never find anything to say. I could almost tell the whole story in the first paragraph.

Nevertheless, it seems that over the years, I have developed a vivid imagination, which, when allowed to run loose, sets off on a journey on its own and allows me to write a story, or a novel.