I should start by saying: I love to write. It's as simple as that. Writing is my whole life. It's as essential as air. I don't know how not to write.
People have always told me that I can write well. I never really thought much of it; I assumed everyone could write. It was that natural to me that I thought every person on the planet could do it. During my school years I was always placed in the top English sets, sometimes doing work that had originally been set for a year or two older than I was.
Unfortunately due to illness I ended up in hospital, meaning I missed a lot of school. I ended up moving to a new school and was thrown headlong into the works of "Shakespeare". I ended up passing both my English GCSE exams - Literature and Language - with the highest mark possible. After I left school things changed in my life again. I didn't go to college - it was never a big plan of mine anyway. I tend to believe that natural talent and flare is better than any piece of paper can ever prove. It's either in you or its not.
After a few months I decided I was wasting this gift I had been given. I had been blessed with a tremendous amount of free time and I was squandering it. I wasn't working and so I had the time in the day to actually write a novel - maybe even finish a book I had started for once. By the end of the year I was started work on my first ever novel: "Belonging". It took me a year to complete it, writing in secret every morning when dad was in work. It was a simple story but I liked it and was very proud that I had actually finished what I'd started. It's not a story I would want to write now but as a first book it was just what I had needed.
As soon as it was finished I started work on a bigger challenge - "Olimpia Valley". It was always going to be a long book and it was often more hassle than it was worth. But something happened while I wrote that book: I began to feel the "urge" to return to it. No matter how hard it became I still wanted to return to it and was actually pulled back to the computer, unable to resist. I finished it in November 2002. By the time that month was over I had yet another book under my belt and I realised I had found my "calling". Since that novel was completed I have averaged two novels a year.
My stories - the novels and the smaller stories I publish here on the site - all have a male gay character in the lead role and also a strong, female character. The novels are, underneath the story, stories of love. I do love to write about fantasy worlds though so the majority of my tales are set in a fantasy background. But they are what I call "real fantasy" stories, which means that they are based in real situations and deal with real issues and emotions but are based in a past or future time that is different to the one we live in now.
I suppose the question people will ask is why I am writing books about gay men when I am a mostly heterosexual female. I don't know is the answer. I guess I like men and I think the relationships they have with one and other are fascinating. And, yes, of course, two pretty guys together is a nice image. But please note that my books are not about "being gay". They are just stories about love where the love is shared in the main between two men; but also, with the other characters, between two women, and men and women. There are sex scenes in my books but it is not about reading about two people having sex with each other in different locations. The sex scenes are only in there because, yes, men and women do have sex with one another.
I decided to open this website because I wanted my books to be brought to a wider audience - and yes, I admit it, I want to get them published and I would like to think this website might be able to help in some way.
I think that covers everything. As I said at the beginning: I love to write and these are the stories I love to write the most. I hope you enjoy them. If you don't, then I suggest you keep searching for a writer who you do like.
