Who Am I?

I can’t remember exactly when I started writing stories, I know I was very young, maybe five or six, and even then it felt like I had always been doing it. I would write what I liked, and at that age it was dinosaurs and other animals. 

I can remember reading Black Beauty and the Silver Brumby series, and they fuelled my obsession with horses, not that it took much. I think I am always obsessed with animals.(I am lucky enough to live in a rural area and have Arabian horses, dogs and cats). You’ll find animals feature heavily in a lot of my books!

I read a few sci-fi/horror novels, the first full-length sci-fi novel that I read was a Star Trek hardbound book, and my love of science fiction began, and progressed to Stephen King’s Carrie. I wasn’t overly impressed, but did read others of his and soon became a fan. Various fantasy novels found their way into my library, and if a book combined science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I was home.

I took a break from writing for many, many years, though occasionally I’d start a story, only to put it aside without finishing.

I caught the writing bug again when I started reading fan fiction, writing a few of my own, and received great reviews. I then penned a few short stories and submitted them into competitions. I was fortunate enough to win or place highly, and starting writing a novel and posted it, chapter by chapter, n a website for fiction writing. It was very well received and before long I had several offers to publish it when it was only about a third of the way through, spurring me to finish and submit it. Madman Across the Water, inspired by Elton John’s  iconic song and loosely based on the Slenderman Myth outsold my hero Stephen King on multiple occasions, and readers demanded a sequel. It came eventually, but not before my Origin of Evil series had started. As you will see I’ve quite a few books out and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.