dark, quirky & paranormal fiction

Brand new ghost story available!

Can't Fool Me is free to read on the Fox Spirit Books blog.

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Hello!

Emily fought for control. "Let me get this straight. You're busy making a programme about haunted houses and you don't believe in ghosts?"

Thanks for dropping in. Here you'll find details of all my books and many of my short stories (an odd mix of ghosts, tentacles and good old fashioned baddies, sometimes all at once) plus the latest news, a brief introduction to myself and links to my blog.

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Got Ghosts?

"Some psychic you are, darling - you didn't see that coming!"

"...spooky chills with plenty of light-hearted laughter." Matt Hilton, author of 'Preternatural' and 'The Shadows Call'

"...a humorous ghost story with an old English charm." Tom Adams, author of 'The Psychonaut' and 'Coffin Dodger'

Paranormal romance Got Ghosts? is a quirky romp stuffed full of ghosts, TV producers, ghosts, missing paintings, ghosts, happy - and unhappy - mediums, and yet more ghosts. The book is published by Fox Spirit in both print and digital versions with delightful cover art by Vincent Holland-Keen.

Head to the main Got Ghosts? page for more info including an excerpt - and details of where you can buy the book.

Recent articles and guest posts

Hanging out with a hippo

The lovely Haphazardous Hippo, to be precise. She interviewed me recently for her blog - find out which books make me cry, which character I'd like to spend time with, or why I'm so bad at maths...

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  • Ghosts, more ghosts and the Mona Lisa

    Lacey Dearie interviewed me during a recent "visit" to Greystones Hall!

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  • A spooky place to visit

    Grange-over-Sands: an unlikely setting for the paranormal, in The Spooky Isles magazine.

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What's new

There's a whole new page of free short stories for you to check out, including The Summons, a creepy little tale based on Cumbrian folklore.

Free stuff

My books

Drop in for a full list of my current books, together with some of the many short stories I've had published in anthologies and magazines over the years.

Books

About me

I live in a slate cottage within stone-throwing distance of England's largest lake. I rarely have my nose far from the pages of a good book - or a cup of tea!

Full bio

Got Ghosts?

A quirky romp stuffed with ghosts, TV producers, missing paintings, happy - and unhappy - mediums, and yet more ghosts. Published by Fox Spirit.

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Latest blog

"...it all started when some navvies employed on constructing the dam across Seathwaite Tarn to provide drinking water for Barrow in Furness were denied drinks..."

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Contact me

You can find me lurking in various corners of the net including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Get all the details of where I'm likely to rock up next.

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