Indie Scribe Magazine March 2015 | Page 11

skill. Back then though there were no courses to learn this skill and my careers advisor tried to push me into; engineering, the pit or the armed forces. In the early 70’s there wasn’t much choice where I lived so I ended up in an apprenticeship in screen printing for the ceramic industry.

In the early years of my apprenticeship I had the pleasure of a trip on the schooner Captain Scott, a training ship as part of the crew. We sailed around Scotland and even up as far as Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.

As in all jobs, mine has a certain amount of repetition, to relieve that I often lose myself in my mind as I work through a story.

I’m still in the same trade after a forty year career but my passion is and has always been writing.

After several abortive attempts I started the Col Sec series around seven years ago, It’s an action adventure series set in the twenty fifth century.

After a brief four year stint living close to the beautiful Derbyshire Peak District I’ve returned to where I grew up.