I had an absolutely fab day on 29th June at Anglia Ruskin university, Cambridge ,with my chat to social work students and lecturers alongside Angela Hunt and Alison Kindred-Bryne from To The Moon and Back foster care. With only being my second event talk I was a little nervous to know I'd be sharing my story to 33 social work students and lecturers, but it turned out to be a rather lovely evening. Although we had a few giggles during the hour and half long talk (followed by a

After successfully self-publishing the first edition of Poems From a Runaway, obviously I was buzzin! So I set about learning how to market my book and always knew I had to get it out to social workers and missing children's charities - so I went on a mad one via email. I've sent out well over a thousand emails to numerous charities and social work agencies as well as homeless support hubs and youth workers and even local newspapers. A big thanks to the Sunday Mercury (Birmin

After I wrote 'Free Drinks On Haymarket (which you can read here), I thought why not write a book about the rest of my childhood memoirs about living on the streets of London. I knew I'd slept rough, begged and lived in some quite famous and scenic places such as Piccadilly Circus, and Green Park near the Ritz and Buckingham Palace and I couldn't help but think of an old A.A.Milne book I once picked up as a very young kid - which featured poems about homeless people sleeping