Where to start? 

Being a bit 'old school' I must admit to finding it a little bit daunting to share my life, my history with a bunch of, and I have to be honest here, strangers. A bit like showing my nethers in a charity shop window for all and sundry to point and criticise, but nevertheless I will have a go and if I don't like it I can always pull a blanket over my eyes and pretend it never happened.

OK, so I'm not quite as old as God but then I'm not very young either and in my working life I have toiled mainly as a chef and latterly as the owner, along with my wife, of my own restaurant in England. I have also been a wedding photographer, a market researcher, a legal aid representative, a glass cutter, a oh never mind, the list is endless but suffice it to say that it took several years for me to realise that I was unemployable and had better start working for myself, which I did and believe me It was my salvation.

I became interested in writing at a very early age and read anything I could get my hands on and scribbled from the age of 6 or 7. Latterly I joined a writers group but they were mainly poets and though I did write some poems it was prose that really grabbed me.

I have had one book published, a collection of short stories about a small town in Arizona, from its inception through to modern day and with overlapping characters and places and I have had several poems published and given air waves, mostly about pigs with human characteristics and mainly humorous but never deep and intellectual.

I like mystery, science fiction, adventure, involved plots and plot driven rather than character driven books. 

I have no favourite author and am frightened of using the style of authors whose books I have read, I think it important for a writer to develop his or her own distinctive style. 

As I said at the beginning I'm not used to exposing myself and I hope this profile hasn't bored the socks off you.