I didn't start out in a career in writing; I qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer. In this capacity I worked for several years on projects in the UK, the Far East and Africa. During this period I won the Institution of Civil Engineers 'Miller Prize' for a paper on tunnelling. Perhaps my first foray into writing? It was a pretty dry technical piece. However, my experience in tunnelling has given me an exciting idea for a story which I hope will be a lot more fun than my engineering paper, and I have just recently made a start on this.

Changing times resulted in a change in direction and after qualifying as an Associate Member of both the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Royal Photographic Society, started my own stock.