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I'd like to project a cool and gritty image to match the manga chick in the main picture, but here's a respectable photo instead...
(And the rural reality below: me with a Rayburn stove growing out of my ears, giving a small red dog a tummy rub.)
Photo credit: Les Hester
I'm based in the north-east highlands of Scotland, where I live with one husband, two children, one labrador (Cluny), two cats (Pebble and Dash), and way too many rabbits.
Two terrific events in April - on the 22nd, 
there was the launch of Crossing The Line at the Scottish Book Trust in Edinburgh;
on the 24th a Big Issue event at Turriff Academy, also organised by the SBT. For details see my random jotter.
Writing for a living is a lot of fun - though it's like taking dictation from the cast of bolshie characters in my head. Alastair Campbell once said it was an ideal job for a control freak. His characters must be better behaved than mine, since mine spend their lives telling me what's going to happen next. 
But I like it that I never know just how it's all going to end - not till the fat lady sings, the villain meets a suitably sticky end, and the boy gets the girl (or indeed the boy).
My first full-length novel Bad Faith was published by Strident in October 2008.
In April this year Bloomsbury published Crossing The Line.
As well as full-length books, I write educational fiction for secondary Key Stage 3. Life Of The Party, Mind's Eye and Sea Fever have been published by Evans Brothers, as have short stories The Changeling, Rockface, Misty and The Kindest Cut (in their science fiction, crime, ghost and comedy short story collections).
I also work for the highly successful book packagers Hothouse Fiction, creators of Darkside - I'm currently writing the Darke Academy series, shortly to be published by Hodder.