A Little Bit About Me
The start of my poetry journey
I suffer from depression, anxiety and a mild form of temporal-lobe epilepsy. This isn’t a cry for help. It’s just to explain some back story on where the idea for my initial book came from.
It just means my brain misfires and, has a strange way of behaving so one Saturday morning during lockdown, I was up early and awake and wanted to put the words in my head onto paper. Well, onto screen. And Poems From a Depressed Mind was born.
The poems are thought provoking, funny, absolute nonsense, or whatever you want to take from them. I hoped it would appeal to fellow sufferers and families of; and can either resonate with, or learn from what goes on in a misfiring mind!
Pretty Pug Publishing
This lead to me forming Pretty Pug Publishing during the Covid Years.
Mainly to have a place to self-publish my books but I ended up helping to help 9 or 10 other authors get there books out there too.
It was always more of a labour of love than a money making venture and needs must meant I had to return to work to pay the bills, and the short-lived publishing dream came to an end...
2025 and beyond
... until now!
The writing and poetry 'bug' has never left and the world is now my banana, or oyster, or whatever!
I found Big Thinking Publishing who have been amazing and have already republished Monkey-Dog and Tigers and many more are planned in the next couple of years.
Oh and I've moved to Carlisle, got engaged, left my corporate job and well, that's enough for now!
Keep watching this space!