Portfolio

Published work and literary awards

Sophie’s work in progress, an historical novel set on Zanzibar, has just been shortlisted in the Fiction Factory First Chapter competition.

It won 3rd Prize in the I AM WRITING ROMANCE COMPETITION judged by Kate Nash Literary Agency on its commercial potential

and was short-listed for the Eyelands Book Awards, 2021 for unpublished historical fiction, and in the  Virginia Prize for Fiction 2022

Another manuscript is currently in the Writing Awards Finals of the Page Turner Awards 2022

It was Long-listed by the Exeter Novel Prize, 2021

Won the Athanatos Grand Prize for Novel Writing, 2017

Won A Woman’s Write 2019 for an unpublished novel

Won the Eyelands Book Awards 2019 prize for unpublished historical fiction

Sophie’s historical novels are being highly ranked in a prose competition in the USA reaching #8 and #5 in The Red List:

It reached the Finals of the Page Turner Awards, 2021

Long-listed in Adventure in Fiction’s New Voices First Novel Award, 2021

Semi-finalist in The Eludia Award, 2021 in the USA

3rd Prize for Association of Christian Writers Novel Competition, 2020

Long-listed for the Historical Novel Society award for First Novel

Long-listed for Retreat West’s First Chapter Competition, 2022 with two novels

Long-listed for Roadmap’s Write Start novel competition in the USA, 2021

Long-listed by Flash 500Novel Opening competition, 2021

Semi-finalist, ACFW Genesis literary contest in the USA, 2021

Reached the Top 50 of Launch Pad’s Prose Writing Competition 2022 in the USA.

Winner of a Three Writer’s Resort Residency 2019

THIRD PRIZE – International Rubery Book Award

Published Works

Coming soon! The audiobook of ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’

‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’ first published by classic TV Press, 2014, 2nd  edition published The Lutterworth Press, 2017

‘The secrets of filming ‘Swallows and Amazons(1974) ‘ self-published, 2nd edition 2016

‘Ride the Wings of Morning’ self-published, Ashton House Publishing, 2012

‘Funnily Enough’ self-published, Ashton House Publishing, 2011

‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ an anthology published by ACW, 2016

Foreword to ‘An A-Z: Cumbria and the Lake District on Film’ published by Hayloft Publishing, nominated for The Lakeland Book of the Year Award, 2017

Foreword to ‘Swallowdale’ by Arthur Ransome published by Albatros Media, Czech Republic, 2016

Foreword to ‘Swallows, Amazons and Coots’ by Julian Lovelock, published by The Lutterworth Press, 2016

Foreword to ‘Boats Yet Sailing’ by Trevor Boult published by Lily Publishing

Out 9th October 2021: One of 50 authors contributing a chapter to ‘Write Well’ (pub by Instant Apostle, 2021)

Coming soon: ‘Covid Reflections‘ – an pandemic anthology, 2021

Coming: ‘The Making of Coot Club and The Big Six’

Coming: ‘The Bitter Enders – Life on an African Farm’

‘The secrets of filming Swallows and Amazons Forever!’ DVD Extras, for Revelation Film, 2014

Articles in Daily Telegraph, Country Life, Cotswold Life, Classic Sailor, Living, iBelieve, Word in Action, Westmorland Gazette, Lymington Times and other newspapers

‘Makorongo’s War’ the true story a screenplay commissioned by Dashwood Films

INSET series of 3 x 30 min episodes for BBC Education TV

‘Boys About Girls: Girls About Boys’ for BBC Schools TV

‘Just Mum, My Sister and Me’ for BBC Schools TV

‘The Way People Talk’ for BBC Schools TV

‘Crazes’ for the series ‘Tutorial Topics’ for BBC Schools TV

Edited ‘Through the Dragon’s Eye’ a Look and Read publication for BBC Books: a storybook with educational notes that sold over 200,000 copies

Produced ‘Through the Dragon’s Eye’ audiobook for BBC Books.

Research: ‘Bluebell’ the authorized biography of Margaret Kelly by George Perry for BBC Books

Research: ‘Dawn to Dusk: on Safari’ by Jonathan Scott for BBC Books

Picture Research: The illustrated ‘My Family and Other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell for Guild Publishing and Grafton Books

Visual contribution: ‘The Dinghy Cruising Companion’ by Roger Barnes

Visual contribution: ‘Remembering Tenko’ ebook by Andy Priestner

President of The Arthur Ransome Society 2014-2019

Member of ACW – Association of Christian Writers

Christian Writers’ Directory

Appearances on the cover of other books and DVDs: