My parents wrote several books while I was growing up, so writing always seemed a natural part of my life. My first published work was a series of letters which appeared in Drive magazine when I was ten.

I am a member of The Society of Authors and East Anglian Writers. I co-authored the cookbook Vegetarian Masterpieces, first published in 1988 and currently in its ninth edition. I had a regular column with my co-author Carol Tracy in the Charlotte Observer on vegetarian cooking, and now regularly contribute articles to the quarterly journal The Herbalist and to Triangle magazine.

My husband, Matthew Seal, and I have completed two books together:

Hedgerow Medicine: harvest and make your own herbal remedies, published by Merlin Unwin Books in May 2008. A US edition has just been published, titled Backyard Medicine.

Kitchen Medicine: household remedies for common ailments and domestic emergencies, to be published by Merlin Unwin Books in September.

www.hedgerowmedicine.com
www.societyofauthors.org
www.eastanglianwriters.org.uk
www.merlinunwin.co.uk