Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I live in a small town in Scotland with my wife.
I have written quite a lot of books since I was sixteen. I have five currently published on Kindle: one being a novel and the other four are shorter works.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The latest book is The Reek of Blood and it’s a collection of three short stories.
The inspiration for most of them was just how dark and mean I could make these horror stories.
The first story in the collection came from what if an exorcist was colluding with the demon he’s supposed to be getting rid of?
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not unusual, just unprescribed. The only thing I do consistently is sit at the keyboard and hammer out words.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lots. Some fairly obvious in the horror genre, like Shaun Hutson, Brian Lumley, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Dean Koontz (when he wrote horror) and James Herbert. I suppose I could throw in Stephen King as a negative influence, I’ve never been impressed with his work.
Terry Pratchett, Charles Dickens, Alan Moore, Matthew Reilly, Janet Evanovich, Robert Asprin and whole bunch of other writers have influenced me.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on another short horror book which I’ll leave for a while. Then it’s editing another book ready to uploaded to Kindle.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven’t been doing this long enough to give a useful answer to that yet. Hopefully Awesomegang proves fruitful.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. That’s it. Write.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I’ll just parrot what I answered for the previous question: write.
What are you reading now?
I shouldn’t say this, but I’m in between books at the moment. Not sure what to read.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Next for me is a lot of hard work. Writing and promoting my books.
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?
I’d take Ice Station by Matthew Reilly, Making Money by Terry Pratchett and cheat with Watchmen by Alan Moore.
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