I’ve been writing since I was sixteen, quite some time ago now as you can see! First it was poems, then songs, a few short stories and, finally, novels. My first offering was Spirit, which I wrote on a little typewriter I bought with my first pay packet. It took several years to complete and I did go through the steps of trying to get it published but, inevitably, it got rejected by several publishers and agents. Nine books later and having studied the craft of writing in more detail I can understand why.

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The idea for Spirit came from a visit to a tin mine during a family holiday to Cornwall. The site of these abandoned edifices around the county, some on steep inclines with tunnels stretching beneath the sea, resonated with me and the idea for the novel was born. Because I only had a hardcopy of Spirit in a world that was fast becoming digital, I decided to copy type the original manuscript into Word. Later, I found out about OCR (Optical Character Recognition,) which would have saved me weeks, if not months, of typing - not to mention RSI!

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Spirit was followed up by Blindsight, the story of a man who is robbed of his site for doing a good deed but then develops a sixth sense of seeing visions when touching other's belongings. Soon he becomes involved in a police investigation to help find a number of missing teenage girls. My third novel, Tears of an Angel, was actually a different genre so I wrote it under the pseudonym of Christine Burney. There were two more offerings before I returned to the supernatural genre with Bear Claw Canyon. This is the tale of newlyweds who get lost in the Canadian wilderness with a mysterious 'ghost like' being pursuing them. Shadowman came next, which is about a boy who sells his soul to the Devil to kill off a school bully but then negotiates to buy it back in exchange for six lives! It took me years to write Disciples, which followed, and this is the one I am currently editing for what will end up being my second publication in 2024. It’s the story of an American writer who buys an old church and unwittingly unleashes twelve dark souls into a small village with dire consequences.

As you may have gathered, there is a dark element to most of my novels. I’m not exactly sure where this dark side comes from, as I’m from a fairly normal family, but I’ve always had a passion for ghosts and anything supernatural. Hopefully, Phantom will be the first of many novels I am planning to release over the next five years or so. In addition to the nine I have completed and need to go back and edit, I have about twenty more books that I’ve started and need to go back and finish, so I have plenty of work ahead of me. Anyway, I must crack on, so I hope you enjoy reading Phantom as much as I enjoyed writing it. 

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