I wrote my first novel at the age of 7. It was very exciting, but not very long. I seem to remember it involved a pirate.

I became a solicitor, and then after politics (the first foray, anyway) my husband and I moved to Exmoor to go self-sufficiency farming. 

For a time, I wrote for children, regularly commissioned by the BBC Playdays Magazine, which was great training, with a 500 word budget, + or – 2 words, and a beginning, a middle and an end, not necessarily in that order. A moral was a good addition.

I’m a lifelong environmental campaigner, and since being one of the four founders, in 1972, of PEOPLE, the political party which became the Ecology Party before it turned Green. I was its first National Secretary, and drafted its first manifesto in 1974.

I moved on through more politics, and came out the other side, to philosophy, via quantum physics.

I became disheartened at the tales of editorial battles with publishers, the difficulty of finding a literary agent, and how long everything took. At my advanced age, I couldn’t afford to spend more years on process, I needed to see results. The wave of independently published books, backed by the willingness of Indie authors to share their expertise, persuaded me to learn to speak Amazon. 

I published ”Just a minute!” said the penguin. “We need to talk.” in September 2024, as an ebook, paperback and hardback. It’s a conversation with a penguin about climate change, and a commentary on how humans should be acting if we are to survive the crisis.

Elaine’s Angel is an Indie-published novel in three formats. It explores what happens when an angelic vision appears in a remote English village in the current world of instant communication.

Acme 2000 follows the events after Joyce wins a world-processor and finds it won’t write her novel, but is into alchemy. Also Indie published.

I am working on a memoir about my part in the early days of green politics and events following in the decades since then. I abandoned party politics many years ago, and was drawn into a parallel world of quantum physics and, via James Lovelock, Gaia Theory. I am a dowser and the things I work with now offer me a hope of helping humans to learn to cope with our changing climate in time to avoid being part of the next extinction

I shall self-publish this book, and hope it will be out this year.