Why do I write military stories? To experience life in a way I could never live it. I’ve led an ordinary life, but I love extraordinary stories. As a child, I read voraciously, everything from Enid Blyton to Douglas Adams, Charles Dickens to Margaret Atwood. That was in the days before the British education system

Just for shits and giggles (not necessarily in that order), I searched online for “modern day megalomaniacs”. Mainly because the world appears to be overrun by power-crazed despots, a surfeit of money spilling from overstuffed trouser pockets as they run riot in the modern world. Unsurprisingly, the likes of Kim Jong-un (rhymes with wrong-un), and

I’m curious, will AI make us want to connect with each other more or less? I must make it clear, I am discussing this from having lived in the UK all of my life – I think that is important, as we often find it hard to communicate directly at the best of times. I

I love creating ghosts. And writing poems about ghosts has become my ‘thing’. The problem with my poems is that they’re very short and, in order to have a decent sized book, I have to write a lot of them. And that involves coming up with a lot of different ghosts and haunting settings.  Getting

This is a terrible confession, but it’s absolutely true. The main character in my murder mystery novel is called Polynesia Henman, and when people ask me how I came up with the name, I always look them in the eye, move a little closer and then whisper, ‘Now that’s a very interesting story.’  If they