Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a retired international installations engineer, a career that took me to more than 30 countries and left me with memories of so many cultures. Some of the memories I would rather forget. I have seen things that nobody should have to see. Still, the experiences allow me to write better stories.
I have written three novels so far, am working on a fourth, and just began a fifth.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
When Things Go Bang is a story I have wanted to write for a long time. It’s inspired by my own dysfunctional childhood in the village of Hightown, on the Mersey coast.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write when I can visualise complete scenes. It is literally like playing a video in my head. I just write down what the people do. Really, I’m a reporter.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
HG Wells, JG Ballard, Bryan Aldiss.
What are you working on now?
Right now I am beginning a sequel to When Things Go Bang
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social marketing!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
My best advice for new authors is to allow your characters to drive the story rather than impose your own. I believe outlines are the death of originality.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
To join a critique group. I spent several years in a serious critique group and it was invaluable.
What are you reading now?
Kingdom Come, by JG Ballard (2006)
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m going to write a sequel to When Things Go Bang, and finish my UK thriller, but the next thing to come is my memoir, at 103,000 words and 80 images, it took me quite a while. I just need to commission the cover art.
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?
The Lotus Sutra (Buddhist)
The Drowned World (JG Ballard)
World of Chance (Philip K Dick)
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