I'm a fifty-something computer programmer from Manchester. I write mainly thrillers, dashing in sprinklings of science-fiction, psychology and humour. Although I've written novels and shorts since childhood, I only got into indie publishing on turning forty when the other choices for a mid-life crisis looked too expensive. Successes in short stories almost translated into becoming a traditionally published novelist in 2010. Instead, I moved into indie publishing with the well-regarded "Fakebook.con". I’ll never admit how much research I did in writing it, but I will say I had to apologise to an entire school. Twenty books later, I may have proven wrong the agent that said I had only one book in me.