Author, publisher, social scientist. My academic specialism is gender and sexual politics and identity, so you can expect this to crop up now and then in my writing too! Not in an "in your face" kind of way - subtlety wins hearts and minds.I live in Lancashire, UK, with family and rescued dogs. It's green and pleasant, and we get long, long, lovely perfumed days in late spring / early summer. My favourite place in the world is Watergate Bay, Cornwall, but I haven't travelled much. The most amazing thing I've ever experienced is the call to prayer at 11 p.m. on a terrace in Istanbul. Goosebumps+ and I'm an atheist!I write realist, character-based/driven fiction - mostly contemporary, some (M/M & F/M) romance and a bit of sci-fi fantasy (light). Basically, I write about life. I've written a few stand-alone novels and short stories, but my main work is the Hiding Behind The Couch series, which these days I'm referring to as a literary soap opera. Each novel/novella concludes, but there are always a few loose ends to be picked up and threaded on to the next instalment. There are longer threads and shorter threads.Novels and short novellas are stand-alone and can be read individually, or as part of the series.I know readers find it hard to navigate a series, so here it is in order (December, 2014):1. Beginnings (novella)2. Hiding Behind The Couch (book #1)3. No Time Like The Present (book #2)4. The Harder They Fall (book #3)5. Crying in the Rain (short novel)6. First Christmas (novella)7. In The Stars Part I (book #4)8. Breaking Waves (novella)9. In The Stars Part II (book #5)10. A Midnight Clear (novella)11. Red Hot Christmas (novella)12. Two by Two (2015)I also run a socialist (profit share) independent publishing company: Beaten Track Publishing.