About The Author

I was born in England in 1967, spending my first 5 years in London. In 1973 my mother and I relocated to her home country of New Zealand where I would grow up on the family farm in a small town called Okato, under the shadow of Mount Taranaki. 

I went to school in Okato attending both the Primary School and the College, winning the major awards at both schools, (The Corbett award in 1978, and Head Boy of Okato College in 1985).

Later I worked for New Zealand Telecom for nine years before travelling the world on and off for the following eight. Back in England I settled in Portsmouth for six years, where I worked at the Southsea Lodge, a haven for International Backpackers, and also where I met my future wife. It was in England where I also met my idol, the horror writer Stephen King in 1998.

In 2003 I returned to New Zealand, living in Christchurch with my (still future) wife, working in the Stores department of a company that made Power Supplies for Telecommunication Companies and later as an Apple Computer Technician. Meanwhile I’m studying 3D Animation.

Married in 2005 our son arrived in October 2006. 

Before the devastating Christchurch Earthquake in 2011 my family and I (along with a cat and dog) had relocated to my old home town of Okato, where I now work with Chickens.

In my spare time I… 

Listen to music (everything really, but my favourite band will always be The Beatles); 

Play guitar (trying to shred like Yngwie); 

Read (everything from Tolstoy and Tolkien to my #,1 Stephen King); 

Watch movies with my son (Star Wars is still the best); 

And write.

I’ve been writing stuff since the 1990s but SIX MONTHS is the first thing I’ve had the courage to publish. Maybe other stuff can now come out of the woodwork as there’s a bunch of it and some of it’s quite good, but it will have to wait as at the moment I’m hard at work on the sequel to SIX MONTHS, aptly named SIX MONTHS LATER: The Second Wave.