Time After Time

1. What types of books do you write?
I don't really have a genre, but I do put the emphasis on language, imagery and character voice in whatever I write. I have written full length novels, short-stories and flash-fiction (1000 word stories or less). It's the material itself that really determines its length.

2. What is the latest book you have written?
It's called "Time After Time" and is an Urban Science-Fiction Romantic Dark Comedy that loosely takes its starting point from the "Terminator" movies. It looks at the paradoxes of travelling back in time to change the events which will therefore alter the future from which you travelled back from in the first place... But at its heart, it's a series of seductions scenarios, the same man, the same woman, the same opening chat-up line and a myriad of outcomes of how that seduction can end up...
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3. Is it part of a series, if so which one?
No I never write series. Always on to the next fresh idea for me!

4. When did you start writing?
Like a lot of people I think I started writing bad poetry as a teenager, hoping I could join a band in my case. But I started writing stage plays at University because I was really desperate to do something creative amid all the dryness of academia and there were lots of free stage spaces and student actors so it was a really good place to learn on the job. I kept writing plays for 10 years until my twin boys came along and I stayed home accordingly to look after them. That's when I turned to writing novels.

5. Why did you start writing?
That's a really hard question. It just seems to be inside me, something I think I have a talent for. I certainly have a love of wielding words. I want to entertain and maybe provoke ideas and debate. All of these things are part of it, but I don't think they explain the whole picture.

6. Who are your influences?
I have lots of authors I admire, but I wouldn't say I write like any of them. I like William Burroughs, Franz Kafka, Don Dellilo, Jonathan Lethem, David Peace, Jeanette Winterson, Dubravka Ugresic, David Mitchell. I think I'm probably more influenced by musicians, but not in any direct literary way.

7. What can we expect from you in the near future?
Book signing events, other details I've recently signed a book deal with an American indie publisher called "Temporary Infinity" for a collection of my short stories, but as yet no publication date. I have another novel ready to publish next year which is an Urban Dystopia Police Procedural with paranormal elements. But the thing I would love to get off the ground is a 5 minute animated typography video of one of my flash fiction pieces which would have a scratch DJ accompaniment. So I'll be looking to raise a modest amount of money for that project.