Ursula's Secret is my debut novel. I've recently completed a full draft of my next novel and am leaving it to one side for a few weeks before tackling the final draft with fresh eyes. In the meantime, I'm developing characters for a third novel and have outlines in development for another two…so many ideas, so little time. 

I've also had some short stories and poems published and although I've given up writing these for the time being to focus on the next novel, I hope to do more in the future. For now, though, I've included a sample of each here. 

Hope you enjoy. 

Short Story
Flowers on the Flagstone

I wrote an early draft of this story on writers' retreat in Spain. All that glorious sunshine must have made me pine for the wind and rain of the Outer Hebrides. I read the finished piece at Edinburgh International Book Festival's Story Shop in 2012, courtesy of Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, and later that year it was published in Worth the Wait, the anthology published to mark the inaugural Bloody Scotland crime writing festival. 

Poem
That Day in Salamanca

I've been told my poems are more like flash fiction than poetry in that they usually tell a story, This one certainly does but to me it's still poetry and I couldn't have written the story it tells as prose. See what you think. It won a competition in 2013 run by Edinburgh Writers' Club.