Hello, I’m Karma

I’m a business owner, wife, mum and writer from Buckinghamshire. I’ve also got an unhealthy obsession with history, particularly anything medieval or Tudor. I unapologetically have a love affair with castles.

I’ve spent most of my adult life building an IT business with my husband, raising two children and generally assuming I had a reasonable idea of where life was going.

Then, in 2016, I got breast cancer. I had no time for it. In fact, my first words after being diagnosed were: “What the f*ck? I haven’t got time for this.”

I blogged my way through treatment. It covered the fear, the cake-inhaling steroids, the dark and inappropriate humour, and all the other bits nobody puts on the cancer information leaflets. Nine years later, those words somehow became the beginnings of a book.

When I’m not working on the book, I’ve also started writing poetry and short pieces about life, people and the slightly ridiculous, often hilarious, business of being human.

I’m also an overexcited hobby chaser, a comfort-zone pusher and a people-loving introvert who is always up for an adventure (followed by a little lie-down). I still identify as a pre-cancer runner. I have all the gear, if not quite the idea or the inclination back, yet.

And I’m still working on my sense of humour … its reliance on inappropriateness and innuendo leaves a lot to be desired.