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I've been writing off and on since 1983. Starting with poetry and then songs I moved on to short stories, novels, screenplays for TV and cinema, and finally non-fiction before finally settling into my magnum opus KILLING TIME ON THE OTHER SIDE in around 1998. I wrote something like 3,000 pages of that trilogy over the next 16 years before abandoning it with a heavy heart. I set the bar too high and just couldn't get over it. My goals were too elusive. The trilogy was evolving, getting more complicated every year. I kept going back to the beginning, trying to tame the monster I'd created at source, but all to no avail. I was really very ill when I walked away from my magnum opus, and indeed from writing itself, at the end of 2014, and I thought I'd never be back. But in November 2018, having turned my whole life around by then through sheer force of will, I had a revelation. In my mind's eye I saw THE KILLING TIME LEGACY SERIES, and that's what's being published now. Book one, MAN STRUGGLING WITH UMBRELLA, is already available. Book two will be out in the summer of 2022. The final three books in the series are nearing completion as I write.
I have done a lot of other things in my life. Writing is only part of my story. I'm an astrologer, a cigarette card collector, a Dr Who fan, a film buff, a music lover and many other things in my spare time. I've kept tropical fish and played badminton and done a lot of buying and selling on Ebay. I fancied myself as a photographer before everything went digital and the fun disappeared out of all that. I'm also a failed musician. I played guitar and some keyboards and even did a little singing back in the 1980s. Most of these things crop up in my Legacy Series at some point. Like they say, it's always best to write about what you know. For a living I do what I have to do to pay the bills. I've been a tradesman's mate, a civil servant, a truck driver, a carer in an old folks home, a bar tender and a shop assistant. I spent a year training to be a driving instructor and I even worked in the glassfibre industry for a while. For me, fantasy and reality have always had an interesting relationship dynamic; I find they are often antagonistic and yet in harmony at the same time in some paradoxical way, and more than anything else, blurring the boundaries I encounter left, right and centre in life has become my signature style. I'm quite a spiritual, philosophical, intuitive, feeling-driven person, and I often describe myself as both an old soul and a nonconformist. I hope you enjoy my work. That really would mean a lot to me.
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