My blog proudly presents, a wise hermit-man.

1. Why do you write dark things?
I can't stop. Even my romantic stories have a ghost, a monster or a kid that just won't listen!

2. Where can we find your work?
I've been published in England and in the USA. Nothing in Canada. I am in or will be in Horror Express, The HUB and the defunct Thirteen Magazine. In the USA I can be found in a couple anthologies. Namely, The Halloween Special from Wicked Karnival, the Raw Meat Anthology from CWW and Larry Sells Publishing. As for magazines, I am or will be in Black Ink Horror, Chainsaw Magazine, Escaping Elsewhere Magazine and Mount Zion Press.

3. How would you change the horror genre if you could?
Have more people read and learn from it before they attempt to write
themselves.

4. What are the cliches that really irritate you?
I dread to see stories which use the same old monsters over and over. The same with phrases. 'Draining a cup of coffee' irritates the shit out of me. I stop reading as soon as I see something like that. I don't mind colour draining from her cheeks, or water out of a sink, but draining a cup of coffee?

5. How do you write? Sporadic, intense, to music, from an outline?
I'm sporadic. I use to listen to music but now it's in complete silence. I can be intense but tend to take a long time to write a short story. I build them rather than write something all at once. I use to write it all and send them out, but I never felt they were all that good.

6. Which of your stories is your favourite? Why?
Usually the one I am rewriting. But out of them all it's really hard. I really like 'Forever Christmas' but then 'Grannies' is so different and then of course there's 'Relative Misery.' But at this moment it's 'Laurette's Creator.' That's the one I am revising now.

7. Where do you want to be in 5 years? 10?
In five years I hope to be writing full-time. In ten - just to be living.

8. What author's stories inspire you?
I think Stephen King's Green Mile and Pet Semetary, Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, Rick Hautala's Miss Henry's Bottles, Edo van Belkom's Rats, anything by Simon Clark, Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, Susie Moloney's The Dwelling and Kealan Patrick Burke's Turtle Boy. I can go on and on. But,
I won't.

9. Which kind of story or genre can you not stand?
I don't think there's anything I can't stand. I don't read very much romance, but I write a little romance now and then.

10. What is the worst mistake you've made as a writer?
Sending stories out too early. I have to feel good about it and the story needs to be rewritten a hundred times. My stories come alive after editing, not before.