In the year 2000 I was on the brink of getting my second novel "Harvest Moon" stocked in just about every bookshop in the UK by a leading publisher...but the plug was pulled at the last moment. Now I've stopped being permanently fed up by that and I'm hard at work again writing the third - "Iconostas", set in the year 2087, in a world with no more oil, gas or plastic and a khamsin roaring every April down Knightsbridge, and Russian is the first language. Also deals with the "sex slave" trade as practiced in the highest echelons of "society". Sorry for those of you who...well, just to say that its not an adult entertainment piece of work though.
I was previously represented by one of the world's major literary agents, based in Holland Park, London. While completing "Harvest Moon" I was approached by a second, London-based literary agent. This lady had succeeded in getting the first £1 million advance deal, with EMI, for a poet (the story of that was run on BBCs "Newsnight"). Having already committed myself to the Holland Park agent, I felt left with little alternative than to turn her down. Now we'll never know what might have happened. It was all a bit like winning the lottery and then losing the ticket...
I've had a life-long involvement with music - most recently with Wembley-based band Visible Groove , now under a freelance management agreement with Play Studios, Soho. A 3-track demo will soon be circulated around the industry, and gigs will follow. A video will soon be available too, watch ths site's bulletins for more info... I started playing bass at 14 years of age and guitar at 18. I did a first studio recording session (ICC Studios, Eastbourne) at 17, and started playing the Brighton pub circuit (if you could call it that then) at the same time (does the Alhambra even exist any more?). I did some eighties work with Steve Evans, in Swansea while I was studying for an Egyptology (yes) BA Honours at the University of Wales. Steve subsequently went on to work with stars like Sheena Easton (most recently I think doing a resident show in Las Vegas). I got distracted from music for a few years after that, but re-involved myself some time later. I did a few gigs as bassist on the London pub circuit (Islington, Clerkenwell, Hammersmith) with a pretty unremarkable band but it was good fun to play live again, and there was a recording session in Tooting produced by a member of the former punk band The Vibrators.
I run my own little software consultancy company (formidably populated with a rapidly expanding workforce comprising an accountant and a secretary) which has been doing well for a while and it gives me time to write and compose. I gained an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Wales in 1996.