Born in Folkstone, Kent, England in 1961, I grew up in many different locations, including Zambia, Africa. I spent most of my school years in Leeds, West Yorkshire, where my extended family lived. I will be the first to admit that I was never a great student, but I did love reading. The last thing I would ever have imagined during my time at school was that I would achieve my dream of seeing my name on the cover of a published novel.
After serving eighteen years in the British Royal Navy, I was medically discharged with a broken back and started writing my first novel. I had almost completed it when I had to put it aside to earn a living wage. I taught myself Visual Basic and became a software developer. Although it paid enough to live on, I felt unfulfilled, and became unhappy with the rat race. My wife and I decided to move to the Dominican Republic for a slower pace of life.
I then wrote my debut novel, Gerald, completing the first draft in six months and refining it extensively before James Wymore helped champion it to publication in May 2017.
Since then, I have completed and published JAGUAR—the first novel I ever started—alongside a prequel and the second book in my humorous fantasy series, ‘The disastrous exploits of Gerald’. I am currently hard at work on my next project, the third novel in the GERALD series. My books mirror my diverse passions in life: fantastical worlds and animals.
In my ideal world, I would spend my days writing novels and painting magical creatures such as Dragons, Unicorns, and Phoenixes.
My debut novel, Gerald and the Amulet of Zonrach, was traditionally published in 2017. I have since reclaimed the rights to bring the rest of Gerald’s chaotic, standalone adventures directly to readers independently. With the prequel, Book 1, and Book 2 currently live, I am actively mapping out future titles to allow Gerald to take his wizarding skills to new, and possibly disturbing, heights.
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