Shiny New Story Syndrome

Shiny New Story Syndrome

I have seen a lot of authors post about what they call a ‘struggle with shiny new idea syndrome’. I don’t struggle with it. I embrace it! Last year, I came to realise that that is how my brain works. I will be working on one idea, then my brain will...
How AuDHD Shows Up In My Reading

How AuDHD Shows Up In My Reading

The other day, I shared a bit about how ADHD shows up in my writing. Today, I thought I’d share a bit about how it shows up in my reading. I love books, I always have. They have been a means of escape and regulation for me for as long as I can remember. Even at...
My AuDHD Writing Brain

My AuDHD Writing Brain

I am an author and booklover, and I’m AuDHD. One way this shows up in my writing is that I can sit and write 6,000 words in an afternoon, as I did on Sunday! I found an old manuscript I wrote for the Chapter Book Challenge many years ago. It was very rough and I...
ADHD Awareness Month

ADHD Awareness Month

I read somewhere that October is ADHD Awareness Month. About four years ago, I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism, at the age of 44. I pursued a diagnosis after years of feeling like I was a broken loser. I kept thinking that surely life isn’t supposed to be...
My Facebook Experiment

My Facebook Experiment

At the start of September 2026, I decided to run an experiment with my Facebook page. That page had been fairly neglected with the occasional post when I had a new book or program, but not much else. Posting was patchy at best. The task was simple: Post on my page...
BTS – Lilly’s Library

BTS – Lilly’s Library

Lilly’s Library is a junior fiction story about a little girl who loves books and doesn’t want to wait until she grows up to have her own library. The idea for this book came to me one day and I started to write, then it sat for ages until I saw it when I...