I am a Glaswegian wife, mother and poodle wrangler living in exile from my native Glasgow in rural Aberdeenshire.

I have always written, ever since I was a wee girl and believed I had been left behind by my alien parents on a scouting mission to earth.

I studied Politics and Psychology at Glasgow University and have worked in a variety of roles including computer programmer, systems analyst, quality auditor and pet shop lady. I gave up work to become a full time mum when my daughter was two years old.

Since then I have had several short stories and articles published in a variety of magazines and have co-won a crime writing competition in the writing group I set up with my friend, Jacky Fowler.

I am writing a kids’ book about a Glasgwegian pirate who just happens to be the best nanny in the world. I am also working on a novel – a crime fiction – about a Glasgow journalist who finds his past catching up with him when a young child is abducted from a domestic garden – and have the next two books in the series planned (doesn’t everyone have the three book deal dream?).  And I always have a short story or two on the back burner.

I cannot write romance to save my life – it seems all false and clichéd to me and I am unable to do it justice. I write about people who always end up being Glaswegian, even if only in my head; about people whose past hides secrets; of people who are displaced, emotionally or physically. I write about what makes people behave in a particular way and am still fascinated by the workings of the mind.

There are even a few science fictions tales lurking away, jostling in the queue of untold stories which fight for space in my mind. Perhaps one will be about a young creature who was left behind on a scouting mission to a faraway planet.

Or maybe I’ll leave my autobiography for another time.