Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a thirty year old Kentish lad who transplanted himself to Liverpool for university and ended up staying. I’ve just put out my third ebook, and I’m looking to do monthly releases.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “High Moon Rising: The Serpent’s fangs” – the third in it’s series. I’d love to say that there was some deep inspiration behind, but mainly I just find the concept of Werewolf gunslingers to be awesome. The series was originally going to be one standalone short story, and has evolved into an ongoing serial!
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do my best writing whilst listening to cricket commentary. I don’t know how I’m going to cope now the Ashes has finished!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephen King is a massive influence, but a lot of the humour in my books is influenced by Terry Pratchett’s discworld books and eh fantasy novels of David Eddings.
What are you working on now?
Currently I’m onto the second book of my second series – a spin off of the High Moon Rising books featuring a guild of magicians in Victorian England
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Other than Awesome Gang? Twitter and Kboards have been invaluable resources in book promotion.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don;t be afraid to be objective about your work – I wrote a full length High Fantasy novel a while back, re-read it and then binned the entire thing after realising it wasn’t good enough!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
From my dad in the face of being bullied: “Don’t let the bas**rds get you down!”
What are you reading now?
I’ve just started “The Shepherd’s Crown,” the very last book in the Discworld series.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Plugging away on the latest story in the buildup to a big event I’ve got planned for midway through the next year
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
That’s a hell of a difficult question! I reckon it would have to be “The Gunslinger” by Stephen King, “Legend” by David Gemmell, “The redemption of Althalus” by David Eddings and “The Stone and the Flute” by Hans Bemmann. If nothing else, most of them are heavy enough to use to hunt any animals!
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