Indigo Rain Ebook Released!

In my life I have been proud to call myself many things. Bookworm, writer, pansexual, feminist, advocate; these are all things that make me glow with pride. Though up until recently I’d never considered myself an advocate. Growing up in a small town in the Highlands meant you had to develop hobbies, or be bored half to death – mine was reading, and later writing. In writing Indigo Rain I never considered myself to be actively trying to change the way we deal with bullying, mental health and representation, I was just writing the kind of story my friends and I would want to read. I was just letting out what I felt at the time; my writing has and always will be a very personal insight to my mind. At the time of writing Indigo Rain I was confused about my sexuality, I was being bullied and though I had often turned to books to deal with any struggle I met, this time there didn’t seem to be enough to read, so I wrote one. The fact this is seen as activism is exactly why I now do speak so strongly about it, everyone needs a place to see themselves, we need to take young people’s experiences with mental health and bullying seriously before it’s too late, and we need to talk about the worryingly high stats surrounding mental health and suicide in LGBTQA+ young people. Enough is enough. I am currently studying English Literature in Edinburgh Napier University, I’m learning about literary theory and rest assured, I am getting plenty of new ideas for stories to talk about the issues that really need to be heard.