Author, Screenwriter and Writing Tutor
My first book, "The Master of secrets" was nominated for the Carnegie award; since then I’ve written books for children of all ages - two have been optioned for film and TV.
I’ve also written plays, radio scripts, film scripts and scripts for TV shows such as The Hoobs (Channel 4) and PicMe (Nickleodeon).
I was the resident writing coach on The Richard and Judy Show and one of the judges of their write a children’s short story competition(Channel 4).
This summer I taught a course on Adaptation for TV, Film and Radio at Swanwick Writers Summer School.
As a writing tutor, I teach the Introduction to Writing Children’s Fiction course at Middlesex University; I’ve also taught writing courses for Leicester University, the Arvon Foundation and Swanwick Writers Summer School.
TV script "Pandora" has been selected for the Scriptmarket at the Screenwriters festival at Cheltenham in October 2009..
