Boo's Current Works:
Being Lucky
Fifteen year old Lucky Irwin has ever really felt all that lucky. Her Dad was killed in a tragic car accident and since his death her Mum has turned their home into a refuge for people the world has dealt a particularly bad hand. Visitors come and go, staying as long as they needed to before returning to the world to start their lives again. When FJ turns up it looks as if Rainbow Cottage has found a visitor who might never be ready to leave.
Myth
What happens if someone if destined to die but someone is destined to save them? If Sleeping Beauty had never pricked her finger would the curse have followed her for the rest of her life. Echo is about to find out in this teen novel inspired by age old myths and unlikely romance.
Get Your Money Back at the Door
Find this adult story in the current issue of First Edition magazine (Number 8 - October 2009).
The Scale
Dragon Tales (Wyvern Publications) October 2009
The Scale is a short story about a young girl who is given a beautiful necklace for her birthday. She soon discovers that the gift is the key to an old legend of a Dragon Killer. The necklace is made from the scale of the Queen of Dragons.
A Ghostly Tale
Scream & Spooked - A Teen Horror Anthology (Bridge House Publishing)
October 2009
A Ghostly Tale is a short horror story for teens. It tells the tale of a girl who, after being persuaded by her best friend to try and make this Halloween more interesting than the rest, ventures into an old abandoned house in search of ghosts. What she finds there is more than she could ever have bargained for.
The Blue Door
Due for publication by Fractal Publishing in December 2009
An adult ghost story about a murdered woman who haunts her boyfriend because she promised never to leave him. What happens when the love of your life becomes the love of your death!
Miserable Middles by Boo Irwin & Phoebe Penhalligan (Illustrated by Karen Hurd)
Due for publication by Rebel Books LLP Easter 2010
Miserable Middles is a collection of Tim Burtonesque style stories aimed at everyone from seven to seventy. Inspired by the debate over whether children's books should have unhappy endings, Miserable Middles is just what it says, a collection of stories with miserable middles and you can decide whether the ending is happy or not...Meet a host of characters who live in the Underworld Kingdom, a place where nobody smiles and death is just as interesting as life ever was.