Something new on the horizon.

Red Penguin Books will be releasing Retribution some time in November which is great news for fans of this series not only because they will get this new edition with brilliant new artwork for the cover but also there will be a bonus story as well. I took the decision to add the next story…

New year, new start.

2020 has begun, the start of a new year and a new decade and as with every new year’s beginning a chance to evaluate your life and your goals for the future. In my writing I had reached a place where I thought I knew my voice, I had three book series on the go,…

Write what you know

The advice many people, who are starting out in a writing career, get from more experienced writers is often, write what you know. This is good advice but for a long time I thought it only referred to those writing non fiction or perhaps writers of contemporary fiction after all, how could it possibly pertain…

New release

Jack Cross has had his life turned upside down. His wife and daughter had been killed in front of him by a member of the Hierarchy, Donald Bainbridge had been killed in an abortive attempt on the Prime Ministers life by the same group and finally SI6, the unit he worked for had been disbanded….

Aspire to inspire

As writers I think our primary goal is to tell a good story. When I set out to start writing a book with a serious purpose of trying to get published my motivation was the story. I wanted to write the story I wanted to read. I couldn’t find the book I wanted to read…

A diversion which became something so much more

I had just finished writing Ronin the first book in what was to become the Col Sec series and I was in a difficult place personally. My partner and I were moving house and there were all sorts of complications, both with work and everything that this move encompassed. What had started out to be…