I write
books for children and YA and occasionally novels and short stories for adults -
the most recent being published in Take a Break Fiction Feast and another long
listed for BBC Radio Wales.
I was the
winner of The Writers Advice Children’s Story Competition 2011 with Bella
Constanza, Miss Scrunch, and a Girl Called Primrose, and was also
short-listed in the same competition with Dead
Girls Can’t Tell.
In between writing I run a singing group for people with
memory problems, and their carers which is both humbling and mutually
rewarding.
I live in a
small village just inside the Snowdonia National Park with a backdrop of
heather and fir clad hills; the sea is five minutes away as are the mountains
of the Conwy valley.
I love…
walking and exploring the nearby shores and lofty peaks, and
observing nature. I particularly like toads, frogs and newts, bats and birds,
snakes, spiders, cows and fungi. I also enjoy painting, visiting art galleries,
music, reading – especially reading, and runner beans from my garden.
I dislike…
Shopping except for books, politicians, victorious fisty
thrusts into the air, and eggs, milk, yoghurt and shellfish, all of which
should be banished from culinary practice.
