I was born on April 1st 1957 in the military town of Aldershot Hampshire England, and still live there. School was the usual mundane trek, and back in those days nobody needed qualifications, so like most of my generation I never acquired any. During my younger years I didn’t really have an interest in writing, but as time churned on and I got older something nagged my mind, something that pushed forward my creative side and thus spurred me on and my writing began.

I have been married to my wife Jenny for twenty-five years and have a daughter Tara of twenty-three, and two sons; Wayne nineteen and Adam seventeen; all three can still be a pain at times.

The majority of my working life has been spent working within the plastic industry, working on stationary products such as binders, wallets and the like. This career resulting in me spending twenty-one years as a factory supervisor then gaining the heights of works production manager.

In 1993 the company went under resulting in redundancy. I spent a few more years in other same type jobs, but after the third consecutive redundancy my wife and I agreed I should become a househusband; this gave me the time I wanted to concentrate on my writing something I’d wanted to do for a long time.

I first began work on Space Brigade back in 1998 and after completing the first manuscript started going through the usual practice of contacting numerous publishers and agents, this often resulted in getting the usual response; lists are full or not for us sorry; we’ve all had them at one time or another, but one has to keep trying no matter how disheartening it is.

However, during the negative times I have rewrote Space Brigade several times, polishing and polishing, and worked on the other instalments of the Space Brigade saga, at present I am working on the 4th novel. I may end the saga with the fourth but I’m not too sure yet, but I’ll leave it open just in case.