In another life I was a Scout leader, a golf club secretary and a Tsunami NGO in Sri Lanka, where I lived for 10 years, and still, to this day, have contact with the families I helped.

Today, I write.

A bit of a change, eh. Well, in 2012 I was watching the closing ceremony of the #londonparalympics . I listened to Sir Philip Craven telling how a mother and son were reading (Treasure Island). There was a picture of a man with a patch over one eye, a hook for a hand and a wooden leg. When asked who he was, the boy replied,
“He has one eye, one arm and one leg, he must be an Olympian.”

That moment changed my life forever and I began writing my Polly’s Piralympics Series – Paralympics for Pirates. I saw the need for representative books for children with disabilities, ten years on and I still love Polly and her Pirates with 18th century paraphernalia and 21st Century technology.

For more information for my published books to date, please click on this link : https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537543075

To keep me out of mischief, I visit schools and run the Schools Reading Road Show (SRRS), as well as an author networking group called Indie Authors Networking, and the Scribbling Wordsmiths.

In 2020, I organised the biggest Children’s and YA Book Fayre in SA at St Benedict’s Prep, Bedfordview. It took a year to co-ordinate and though at the time we didn’t now it, fell on the eve of Lockdown. With 70+ Children’s Authors, it was the biggest Children’s and YA Book Fayre in South Africa, sadly though, due to Covid, we were not able to repeat it. 😔