My writing has been accepted for publications as diverse as Red Pepper, Somerset Life and Just 17. For ten years I was a co-editor and regular columnist for Somerset's award-winning Just Women magazine. I spent many years as a teacher and youth worker, and wrote several short musical plays geared to my students. I was a founding member and co-writer of Cock Crow Stone, a community theatre group. Our material was based on local legends and also included a musical inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen. I was short listed for the Ian St. James Award with Crystal, a poetic gothic horror story and was encouraged by the competition organisers to develop one of my short stories, A Window on Her Life, into a full length novel called Fire and Ice.

Dr. Martin Levinson of Exeter University and I have co-written Dreams of the Road, published in 2007 by Birlinn, using our extensive knowledge of Gypsies and Travellers in the South West.

I wrote Who Stole The Stars? for younger readers, beautifully illustrated by Andrew Adam.

I make stained glass windows, many of which can be seen in Somerset schools. I enjoy publishing books for friends and the community, including editing the Millennium books for Ashbrittle and Stowell in Somerset and producing The Rose Queen Dined on Spam and Semolina, a book of childhood memories funded by Age Concern. I am also a house guide for the beautiful medieval Cothay Manor.