And if a Nutshell isn't Enough...

Hi,

I live in Yorkshire, a county in the north of England, with my partner, Ania, and two cats who adopted us.

Picture rugged, untamed moorland with Cathy running into Heathcliff’s arms – that’s Yorkshire! Well, without the running. (Picture jet black bundles of fur – that’s our cats.) Oh, and we don't have elephants or monkeys running wild in Yorkshire, so as you might have guessed, the photos on the left are from some of the 50+ countries I've visited (best viewed on a desktop computer).

One of my most prized possessions is a sunburst Fender Strat, a guitar, which I’ve played in a variety of bands, performing both covers and original compositions (mainly rock).

I’ve studied a number of martial arts seriously – Tae Kwon Do up to black belt – and weaponry for fun – nunchaku (well, which guy hasn’t dreamed of being Bruce Lee!?).

A certified SCUBA diver, I’ve dived in exotic locations such as Mexico, Borneo, and the UAE, but never in England (do you know how cold the water is here!).

I speak 10 languages. (Not fluently, but enough to get a room, get a meal, get around.)

I invented a mathematical formula that makes multiplication easy. For example, multiplying 86 by 27 takes just seconds to do in your head.

My favourite meal is fish fingers and baked beans smothered in brown sauce. Or bacon sandwiches smothered in brown sauce. Or fish and chips smothered in brown sauce. Or cornflakes smothered in…? Yep, you guessed it – milk. (Hey, I’m a man of simple tastes, but I’m not stupid!)

And that’s about it.

Oh yeah, and I write. And make films.

My first novel, What if…?, was published to absolutely no international acclaim whatsoever. Those who read it thoroughly enjoyed it but were far too few in number for Steven Spielberg to come begging at my door for the screen rights. Oh, well.

The Angel of Darkness Series was born in 2013 and was supposed to be a small side-project, but grew into the biggest thing I've ever worked on.

In 2019, a little dog named Kai reared his sweet head. Wow, what a ride that turned out to be – As The Stars Fall is the most emotion-packed story I've ever written. There were times it floored me; at others, I laughed my head off like a crazy person. Such a roller coaster. I hope you enjoy spending time with the little guy as much as I did.

Kai surprised me even more by having two "brothers" - Harley came along first, then Rio. Man, I absolutely loved my time with them, but with their stories told, I moved on.

And what a move it turned out to be. In April 2023, I released my first novel inspired by a true story from the Holocaust, a tale I discovered on one of my travels through Eastern Europe - a story that had never been told in print before! To Dream of Shadows took months to research and was heart-wrenching to write, but, boy, did it turn out to be a "big" book in every sense of the word. Early reviews are magnificent, so who knows where this story could be heading.

Anyway, that's enough from me.  I hope you enjoy my site. Thanks for stopping by,

Steve