I wanted to be a writer in the mistaken belief that it would be quite easy and save me from having to get a real job. Turned out it isn’t and it didn’t. Having had that knocked out of me at a thankfully early age, I could dedicate time to learning and developing my craft while holding down day jobs in publishing (social sciences, I.T., medicine, science fiction) and technical communications.

I’m now the author of five professionally-published science fiction and fantasy novels (and three self-published) under my own name, and many more in other genres under someone else’s. I’ve also ghostwritten the biography of a reformed convict-turned-Christian (Taming of a Villain: A Message of Hope, by Allen Langham, Lion Hudson, 2019) and under my own name written a children’s biography of Ada Lovelace (Ada, David Fickling Books, 2019), chosen by the National Science Teaching Association as one of the Best STEM Books of 2021.