Born and raised in Herefordshire about twenty miles from London. Attended Westfield Junior Mixed Infants primary school and then went to John Warner secondary school.

I remember in my first year at John Warner we had a written exam and were given the phrase, The Day The Bath Overflowed. I decided to write about a spy breaking into a building, a la James Bond, who was eventually shot and told that ‘His bath had overflowed’. When I got the paper back I was told that I didn’t understand what had been asked. I refuted that I did understand what was asked but didn’t want to write the same old dross about a leaking bath.

My first literature love was probably the Famous five by Enid Blyton, Dad used to read the story’s to be prior to bed. At the age of eight I was diagnosed with Dyslexia and that went part of the way to explain why my reading was so dam slow, my spelling so dam awful and my writing untidy. With the help of a private tutor I overcame most of the dyslexic effects and learned to cope with those that couldn’t be overcome.

There was a period of time in my teens when I was obsessed with Batman and comics in general. I still read graphic novels and one day would like to write, draw one.

Post secondary school I went through a period where I found pot, LSD, music. During this time I fell in love with bands such as the Doors, Velvet Underground, Guns and Roses etc.

In 1996 I met a girl who had enough patience and stamina to go on am Adventure. Her name was Jennifer and we are still on that adventure and hopefully will be for many years to come.

After we had spawned a few kids I went to see a James Bond film Casino Royale. This was the Daniel Craig version not the quirky Woody Allen spoof. After watching the film I had an idea for a story based partly on some experiences during childhood. A month of so later I had completed my first full manuscript called Toby’s Boys, I like the characters and have used them in other stories.

Like many writers I go through periods of furious work and development coupled with times where I just can not bring myself to put pen to paper/finger to keyboard.