The book which made me an author is 10!

My first book, my novella Cat & The Dreamer, was published 10 years ago, and it was definitely at that point I considered myself an author rather than a writer. I'd had several short stories published and prize-won, but I was a writer - I thought I always would be. And then this novella was suddenly available for people to buy and review.

I wish I knew then what I know now about publishing and marketing. I wish the options and opportunities had existed then, or at least that I'd know about them. I wish a lot of things for this book, but ultimately, I'm as much in love with this story as I ever was.

This is not the blurb, but I wish it was:

​Who is Cat? Well, that depends. Cat is the bitchy colleague in the office, but sometimes she's the girl who committed suicide at school. And sometimes she's neither of them. Sometimes Cat just lurks in Julia’s imagination, torturing her, telling her she should have died too. And she’s right, of course, because Cat is always right.

Cat & The Dreamer is 10 years old, but the story itself is timeless - the tale of bullying and compliance, of an introvert hiding away from the world, of accepting you're never going to be the one with a happy ending.

"This is the kind of book you could read over and over, and always spot something new to think about. A definite must read!"

Download a copy of Cat & The Dreamer here

Read the reviews on Goodreads