Celt by birth, now living in Eastern France. Has had more jobs than she can remember but retired due to ill health so can now concentrate on writing full time.

Having followed a pagan path all her life, Ailsa writes novels that feature this with huge helpings of adventure and romance. What she does NOT write is the usual "dungeons and dragons" or "willowy teenage witches" stories.

In her village she is a shaman and healer but finds time to knit, cook and collect an unfeasibly large number of homeless teddy bears.

Her pets have included a bat, ferrets, and a raven as well as the more usual domestic ones.

Her only ambition is to continue writing and perhaps return to the UK to live one day.