My love of writing began when I received an A4 lined notebook for Christmas at the age of four. Despite a sack full of more conventionally exciting toys, I remember being most excited about the prospect of writing my very own story. To this day few things are more exciting to me than the infinite possibilities of a blank page. (Though an epic cheeseboard comes close.)

In 2011, after years of filling more notebooks with short stories and my particular genre of excruciating teen poetry, I launched my original self-named blog, which you might remember if you’ve followed me for a while. Alongside building a career in hospice charity communications, I spent eight years filling my site with candid musings about life, relationships, mental health, fucking up, growing up, and navigating 20-something life. Somehow, this work was read almost half a million times, and lead me to my brilliant literary agent, Bryony Woods, who signed me to Diamond Khan & Woods. I’m now working on my debut fiction, which is in equal parts incredibly exciting and absolutely terrifying. (And approximately 2000x harder than I originally thought it would be.)

With my writing career moving on, it seems somewhat strange to have deleted every word that got me to this point, but I felt like I needed to create a beautiful new space: somewhere a little more professional where I can share book updates as they happen, but also to act as a new home for those old-school style blogs of mine, when there’s something I wish to put out into the universe.

I hope my words make you feel less alone in your humanness, remind you that we’re all in this shit together, and cheer you up on darker days. I hope, too, that they inspire you to look for small joys; to find magic in mediocrity, because I truly believe those are the things that make a life.