After a career spent in the tech industry, I now write thrillers to make sense of the world around us, which I'm sure you will agree is facing some profound changes and challenges. When writing one of my stories, I have three non negotiable rules:
1. It needs to concern a current or recent real world issue that I can deeply research (I love research!) and weave my fictional story into. Hopefully, so tightly that you struggle to spot where one stops and the other starts.
2. It has to have a complex plot, full of twists and turns that’ll leave you guessing right until the end.
3. It must contain grey characters, even the good guys. This makes sense to me. Firstly as a reader I hate stereotypical/one dimensional characters and secondly, grey is real-life, right?
The result of the above is The Race Is On series or TRIO. The best sequence to read it in is as follows:
- MAD, a 120 page prequel novella that you can download from my website
- LEAP, Book 1, kicks off the TRIO series
- Green Ray, Book 2, is set five years after the end of LEAP
- ATOM, INC, Book 3, which picks up immediately from the end of Green Ray I live in Leeds, UK with the love of my life and our two daughters. It rains a lot in Leeds but that works out well for me - loads of time for research and of course writing!
