Writing
As soon as I left drama school and landed in the real world, I started writing. My first real endeavour was a novel set in an insane asylum in the middle of a wood in the 1950’s. It was really about the birth of modern psychiatry but it also served as a cathartic experience for my relationship with depression. The depression became manageable but the novel was not; hideously verbose I ended up turning it into a screenplay. After sitting on it like a bilious hen for a few years I finally decided to enter it for some film screenplay competitions. It won one! And I've been writing ever since...
Not From Round Here
If Girls Trip met Deliverance....
I wrote a feminist horror comedy film that's a bit like The Wicker Man, but with girls, and laughs. It's been picked up by a brilliant producer and people have given us a load of money to make it with! Are they mad? Clinicially! We are just breaking down the potential director's self-esteem so they sign on, and then I can give you some info... it'll be a wild and disgusting ride
Lily
One woman, one A.I., one apartment... one hell of a gruesome day...
'Lily' is my latest script, and it was snapped up with neck-breaking speed, which left me a little breathless! To be fair, I wrote it so fast, it was like I was vomiting fire and it gave me the strangest feeling, as though this might be the best thing I ever write, so when I sent it to a director friend to read for comments and she immediately asked if she could have it, it felt weirdly on-brand.
It's a VERY dark comedy about coercive control and trauma, featuring one woman and one A.I. in one apartment over the course of one day.
When Lily wakes up to
find her husband missing, the house that is her prison begins to give up its
secrets, and Lily makes her first friend... one who will help her decode her
strange existence and write a brave new future.
As you would expect from me... it's pretty fucking gross and rude.
You're welcome.
I'll keep you posted...
Boop!
More Horror Comedy, but this time for your ears only!
I've actually written a trilogy of horror comedies, and this is the third one (more on number 2 when I have time), but as it's easily the rudest and most outrageous and difficult to sell, I thought I'd go rogue and try turning it into an Audio Movie! It's a one-woman-full-cast-drama extravaganza! Basically, I play ALL THE PARTS and the story is then overlaid with an incredible film score by the wonderful Jake Ziegler ( https://www.jakezieglersound.com ). I will be donating a CHUNK of profits from the first year of release to the charity Break ( https://www.break-charity.org/charity ), who help care-experienced young people move into independence (as well as doing loads of other great stuff). All other profit will go back into my baby production fund to make the next audio gem...
Boop!
When a group of foster kids is adopted by a famous influencer and her ethical floating lifestyle brand Boop! things go grotesquely wrong, and the kids must fight for their lives to escape. Wellness has never been so sick...
Boop! is OUT NOW ON THE AMAZING PLATFORM XIGXAG! XigXag is a new ethical, sustainable audio platform based in the UK, that has no subscription fees, AND has a great X-Book feature, which means you can read the script as you listen, if that floats your boat. XigXag are amazing and will also donate their share of the profits to my chosen charity too, so if you haven't yet discovered XigXag.... GET ON THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW!
Leave Me Alone
My latest one-woman-full-cast-horror-comedy-audio-drama is almost done!
My latest one-woman daaaaark audio comedy is almost here!
Leave Me Alone is the story of Lorna, a film comopser and foley artist who lives in a lighthouse on a rock off the coast of Scotland... because people are a LOT.
Lorna is happy as can be, living in solitude with her music and her Delicious Monsters. All she asks is to be left alone.
But be warned... she really fucking means it...
Come on an audio adventure that will make you smile, laugh, soar... and then puke your guts out.
More to follow...
My first novel is available on Audible Originals! It's rude!
Death and the Burlesque Maiden
Death and the Burlesque Maiden is a satirical feminist comedy crime caper, set in an alternate world of steampunk and strippers.
Yes, Audible commissioned me to write a novel.
No, I don't think they expected an alternate universe satirical weirdfest when they requested a 'crime' novel, but that's my jam. If it's your jam too, please do download and listen on Audible!
The Perils of Persephone!
Huzzah! An audio comedy about a Lady Journalist with moxie AND a pet chinchilla!
Meet Persephone Pinkerton, girl reporter for The Daily Trumpet newspaper, whose journalistic gumption can only be matched by her ability to sniff out trouble! Determined to expose and take down the shadowy underworld crime syndicate C.L.A.W! (the Criminal League Against the World!) in each episode Persei and her generally grumpy pet Chinchilla (Ignacious Quimby) are sent to report on Lady News events for the paper, but they exploit every opportunity they can in order to unveil the city's evil adversaries and get Persei the front page article she craves.
Peril!
Intrigue!
Lady News!
Buns!
In collaboration with Rakkit productions ( https://www.rakkitproductions.com ) we shall soon bring you The Perils of Persephone! a one-woman-full-cast-comedy show in the spirit of an old Republic Serial. More to follow...
