I never wanted to be a writer, not at a young age anyway. My imagination was too busy being used for other things.

You see I grew up with the release of films like Starwars and Tron. I played Dungeons and Dragons. The home computer became wide spread. My favourite books were the Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. I read White Dwarf magazine in the days when it covered more than just Games workshop products.

All this formed my great love of Fantasy and Science Fiction. But it took a long time before I decided I had a story in me that could really make a great book.

George and the Dragon is that book. Now I’ve written and published one book I realise there are so many stories for me to tell.

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