The first story I ever wrote was about a trip to Hollywood with my family - I was seven years old. My mam proudly displayed it on the fridge and thus began my passion for writing and sharing.

In a small town in Ireland, with a population just shy of 3000, I spent most of my adolescence writing unsolicited short stories in my room, submitting them excitedly to my English teachers for critiques and validation. One swore I'd be an author one day - another thought I was a nuisance but we won't get into that - but it wasn't until I started publishing online that the idea of a career in writing really became an aspiration.

I quickly amassed close to one million collective reads online and since then have begun work on my debut novel, Volatile State