About The Author
Talking about myself never come easily; it always feels like an affectation.
Still, context matters.
My working life often required writing reports that needed to be fully understood before they could be debated. I had a motto: I can tolerate being disagreement, but not when it rests on misunderstanding. That principle stayed with me, though it sometimes sits at odds with the demands of brevity in fiction.
I came late to writing a novel. Not through ambition, but curiosity — a simple “I wonder if I can?”
How It All Began
​The book grew slowly, in small private sessions, with no audience in mind and no expectation of being published. I wrote to see what would happen, not what should happen. The story led, and I followed.
A few plot lines came from things I learned long before I ever wrote fiction — time in the Royal Marines, and later an RYA Day Skipper qualification. They didn’t create adventure; they simply taught me how ordinary competence matters when things go wrong.
What began as an experiment became a habit, then a book. Not planned, not rushed — just quietly carried through to the end.
