Jennifer Thomson is a journalist and award-winning author who writes ficion under the name Jenny Thomson. She has written for many of the top publications in the UK. She currently lives on a Scottish island where she loves to go for walks with her rescue dog Benjy.A vegetarian for 29 years, she wrote Living Cruelty Free: Live a more Compassionate Life. You can visit her cruelty free blog at http://greatestguidetolivingcrueltyfree.blogspot.co.ukOr follow her on Twitter as @veggiegirl2011She's also a bully survivor and wrote Bullying: A Parent's Guide to help others.She charts the ups and downs of writing fiction at http://ramblingsofafrustratedcrimewriter.blogspot.com and tweets as @jenthom72 and @diehardforgirls In her time, she has worked as a mental asylum inmate (she was a TV extra honest), a football correspondent (for 90 Minutes, Scottish Football Today Goal etc...), as a board game inventor and in a psychiatric hospital laundry where she used to find doctors' scalpels in the pockets of their discarded white coats (mercifully, she still has both hands).