I have to say, having a new website is rather like getting a new pair of shoes – both are terribly exciting when the old version is tired and old.

So welcome! Almost everything I have ever done is here somewhere. Articles, books, TV shows, blog, tweets, radio, etc etc – you get the idea. Thank you to my dear friend, Pollyanna Rose, for all the funky photography. I always wanted a picture of myself eating a burger in a shower and now I have it, so I couldn’t be more thrilled.

My first novel, Paper Aeroplanes, just came out here in the UK. You can read some reviews for it on my PRESS page. It’s a story about two teenage girls who, against the odds, become friends. It’s about loneliness, frustration, heartache, betrayal and tampons. I’m proud of it, and I’m looking forward to hearing what you think. Hopefully you will like it because I’m currently writing the sequel, Goose. Renée and Flo are quite the pair, and it didn’t feel right to end their story there.

So, while I get on with writing that why don’t you have a butcher’s around my site. Feel free to email me (details on the Contents page) and let me know what you think. And do say hi on Twitter @hotpatooties because most of the time when I say I am working, I am actually just looking at pictures of people’s lunch.