Writing has always been an important part of my life.

I wrote my first story at the age of four, a cracking yarn about the adventures of Fluffy the bunny that I narrated to my mother. Fluffy had two sequels, but after that my literary output dried up somewhat as I got involved in the things kids get involved in.

As I got older I become a voracious reader, graduating from Dr. Seuss to Enid Blyton to The Hardy Boys. Then, at about twelve (much to the distress of my parents) I took to reading true crime, and writing stories with knife-wielding slashers and various other psychos as my antagonists. I remember submitting one of these as a Comprehension assignment and earning a rebuke from my English teacher. He said that I had talent and shouldn’t waste it writing such “rubbish”. I still consider that my first positive review.

My next writing cue came when someone gave me a dog-eared copy of Stephen King’s, ‘The Dead Zone’. One chapter in, I had a new hero and thereafter I devoured every King book I could find. ‘The Stand’ steered me towards post-apocalyptic fiction and I started reading books from that genre almost exclusively, ‘Swan Song’, ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ and ‘I Am Legend’ among them.

I finally had a genre I was really interested in, and set about crafting my own post-apocalyptic stories. Of course, zombies are the most apocalyptic of all bogeymen, so it was almost inevitable that I’d steer my writing in that direction. The result was the Zombie D.O.A. series, comprising ‘Dead City’ and its fifteen sequels.

I have been overwhelmed by the positive feedback this series has garnered and feel truly privileged to earn my living as a writer. As long as people continue to enjoy reading my books, I’ll keep writing them.