Events & School Visits
As a YA thriller author, I deliver engaging author talks and interactive workshops for secondary schools, libraries, and festivals. Sessions are high-energy and discussion-led, helping students see stories, and themselves, differently.
All events include a Q&A session & a book signing.
Welcome to My World!
Suitable for: Libraries & Festivals. Pitched at aspiring writers.
Duration: 60mins
Format: Discussion-led workshop with slide deck
World-building is so much more than just setting. In this dynamic workshop, I explore how believable fictional worlds emerge through character, dialogue, atmosphere, and tension. Through lively discussion and vivid examples, participants discover how to weave world-building into every layer of their storytelling, creating worlds that feel immersive, alive, and unforgettable for readers.
Chills & Thrills
Suitable for: 13+yrs. Schools, Festivals & Libraries.
Duration: 60mins
Format: Interactive, activity-driven workshop with slide deck
Step into a world of secrets, suspects, and suspense. In this interactive crime-thriller workshop, students build their own gripping story from the ground up, creating heroes, villains, clues, and shocking twists. By the end, every student will have the blueprint for a thrilling mystery that might just be the start of their first crime thriller novel.
Let’s Talk Murder (In Fiction)
Suitable for: 13+ yrs. Schools, Libraries & Festivals.
Duration 45 to 60mins
Format: Discussion-led workshop with slide deck
A discussion-led workshop with audience participation, exploring how thriller writers use murder in fiction to shape character, theme, and narrative structure. Students collaboratively solve a fictional crime while examining motivation, power dynamics, reader response, suspects and red herrings in a session focused on crime writing and storytelling craft.
Secrets, Lies & Other Ways to Die
Suitable for: Schools, Festivals & Libraries.
Duration: 45mins with Q&A
Format: Author Talk with slide deck
In every great thriller, an ordinary person is pushed into extraordinary circumstances. In this motivational author talk, I explore how real life can often work in the same way. Through secrets, setbacks, and sheer determination, I reveal how failure, resilience, and unexpected turns shaped my journey and why anyone can become the hero of their own story. Includes a reading.
Fees
Talk/Assembly
£150
Half Day
£350
Full Day
£500
Virtual Visit
£100 per hour
Travel within 30 miles of RG17 included. Enhanced DBS & £10m public liability insurance.
I am committed to making school visits as accessible as possible. A small number of free, and reduced-fee visits are available each year for schools with limited funding. Please get in touch to discuss availability.