About Me
I live in a small village in the Scottish Borders with my wife and two young boys. Brought up in the suburbs of Stockport I enjoyed a typically happy childhood, which probably means I will never become a great writer. But that's ok because my ambition is simply to write books that people enjoy.
Even as a child I saw myself as a writer but, rather like becoming a popstar or astronaut, I didn't really believe it was possible and so I never really pursued it as a career. Upon leaving school I studied art and design, although I was a very poor student and can only apologise to my tutors!
I grew frustrated at being indoors so I left art college early to work in forestry. However, during an accident at work I broke my neck and after a month on traction and a year’s convalescence I moved into the somewhat less hazardous world of horticulture. For a number of years I enjoyed working outside and learning about plants until the creative imp inside of me became too restless to ignore, at which point I left my job and travelled for a year before switching again to set myself up as a sculptor working for the toy and games industry.
My 'career path' has not been conventional but through all this time I was writing... angst-ridden poems of a typical teenager, short stories and my first attempts at novels, hand written on lined A4 paper or hammered out on an old type writer.
A design studio in Edinburgh gave me the opportunity to move from sculpting to writing and I became the lead writer for Target Games UK LTD. This experience was invaluable and gave me the confidence to think that I could actually make it as a writer. I now work exclusively on my own material and I have a number of projects on the go for both adults and children. First and Only is my first 'published' book. The next book I plan to release is called Battle Mage, a fantasy book and a far more challenging project than anything I have attempted before. You can find out more about it here...
I am, and always have been, an incurable daydreamer. I find it physically impossible to turn my imagination off; something I consider to be both a blessing and a curse. I consider writing to be a kind of vocation. I am not overly concerned with technique and literary craft. What's important to me is the effective communication of images and emotions from my mind to the minds of the people who read my books. If I can achieve this, in even the smallest of ways, then I will consider my writing a success.
I live in a small village in the Scottish Borders with my wife and two young boys. Brought up in the suburbs of Stockport I enjoyed a typically happy childhood, which probably means I will never become a great writer. But that's ok because my ambition is simply to write books that people enjoy.
Even as a child I saw myself as a writer but, rather like becoming a popstar or astronaut, I didn't really believe it was possible and so I never really pursued it as a career. Upon leaving school I studied art and design, although I was a very poor student and can only apologise to my tutors!
I grew frustrated at being indoors so I left art college early to work in forestry. However, during an accident at work I broke my neck and after a month on traction and a year’s convalescence I moved into the somewhat less hazardous world of horticulture. For a number of years I enjoyed working outside and learning about plants until the creative imp inside of me became too restless to ignore, at which point I left my job and travelled for a year before switching again to set myself up as a sculptor working for the toy and games industry.
My 'career path' has not been conventional but through all this time I was writing... angst-ridden poems of a typical teenager, short stories and my first attempts at novels, hand written on lined A4 paper or hammered out on an old type writer.
A design studio in Edinburgh gave me the opportunity to move from sculpting to writing and I became the lead writer for Target Games UK LTD. This experience was invaluable and gave me the confidence to think that I could actually make it as a writer. I now work exclusively on my own material and I have a number of projects on the go for both adults and children. First and Only is my first 'published' book. The next book I plan to release is called Battle Mage, a fantasy book and a far more challenging project than anything I have attempted before. You can find out more about it here...
I am, and always have been, an incurable daydreamer. I find it physically impossible to turn my imagination off; something I consider to be both a blessing and a curse. I consider writing to be a kind of vocation. I am not overly concerned with technique and literary craft. What's important to me is the effective communication of images and emotions from my mind to the minds of the people who read my books. If I can achieve this, in even the smallest of ways, then I will consider my writing a success.