An over analyser with a creative side, by day I’m a public servant. My job can be a pressure cooker at times, but it’s never boring. I love to solve problems and thrive on a challenge.

When I escape, I like to really escape, immersing myself in the creative genres of speculative fiction. My tastes are broad, everything from horror to fantasy to classic sci-fi. I’ll enjoy a satirical comedy or spine tingling thriller in equal measure, or better yet, both in the same story. My early influences include as diverse a bunch as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Isaac Asimov, Terry Prattchet and Ben Elton. In more recent times I have waded through extended series by Robert Jordan and George R.R. Martin.

As a writer my passion is urban fantasy where I can spice up the real world with the unreal, but with undertones of thriller – tension, darkness and twists, the more brutal the better.

I live in the tropical paradise of Townsville with my wife, aging cat and dog, and a daughter who also loves to write.