Barbara Scott Emmett has been writing for a number of years. Her first novel The Man With The Horn was published in 2001 by Bastard Books.
Her novel The Land Beyond Goodbye, is set in Australia and a thriller, Don't Look Down is set in Nuremberg, Germany. She is currently working on a novel about a lost Rimbaud manuscript, working title Poetic Justice, set in Charleville, France.
A short story, Not Raving But Drowning, won first prize in Writers' Forum in August 2003 and another, Our Little Secret, won second prize in the same magazine in September 2003.
Barbara has also had numerous erotic short stories published under the name of Barbie Scott. These have appeared in Black Lace Anthologies and in erotic magazines such as For Women and Scarlet magazine. An article about writing erotica appeared in the Feb 2010 issue of Words With Jam.
Other pieces have appeared in Readers' Digest, Take a Break, Spare Rib, Here's Health and various Edinburgh magazines. Two plays, Death Without Tears and Appointment at Sunset have been performed on the Edinburgh Fringe.
