For years I wanted to write fiction. I still don’t know what it is about stories that I find so fascinating. I think it’s something to do with possibilities, the way in which each book starts as nothing and then becomes something.

I mean, obviously a lot goes on as it moves from one to the other, but there’s something about the formless to form that is just so … intriguing and pleasing. It’s the same when I start reading a book. The book before me could contain anything. It could become my new favourite. It could become a story I go back to over and over.

Back in 2012, I began studying an academic course about children’s literature. It was a great course (although, in all honesty, it was a case of ‘dipping my toe’ a bit more officially in the general world of books when what I really wanted to be doing was writing). Anyhow, during that course I read tons of books for children and young people and I also encountered a lot of theories about reading. Most of those theories I have long since forgotten, but one captured my attention and still does. In fact, it wasn’t the theory as such, it was a statement: reading takes place inside our minds. When I came across that, I remember thinking something along the lines of ‘oh yeah’, followed by ‘how obvious’, and then ‘how come I never realised that before?’ Fast forward a few years, and I came across an understanding called The Three Principles, which points out that our experience of life takes place within our own minds through thought. It was a pretty small step (and a simultaneously giant leap) to see that not only do we experience books in our minds, but each of us is continually narrating our own lives to ourselves too.

There was something about this realisation that made it incredibly simple to go from being someone who wanted to write, but who listened to the myriad of shouldn’t’s and couldn’t’s, to someone who opened a laptop and typed Chapter One, and who eventually contacted an editor. This website is a mixture of both my interest in The Three Principles, and the freedom it has given me in so many ways (both with writing and extending way beyond), and the products of that writing. You’ll find information about my books here, as well as tidbits about writing and any other general musings that want to be shared. If anything here intrigues you or you have any questions about my books, writing in general, or The Three Principles, please do get in touch.