Overview
When not at work or terrifying myself writing horror during the early hours of the morning, I flit between the cake and wine aisles of supermarkets. My latest novel requires me to spend a week alone on an island with only puffins for company; it's a horror about a man who spends time alone on an island with only puffins for company so I think I should achieve terrifying myself, if no one else.
I constantly read, mostly the classics (which have survived as classics for a reason - all the answers are in those), dystopian, horror and comedy.
I like working with other authors. When you are eyes-deep in your own work, it often takes someone prepared to become as invested as yourself in what you are trying to achieve. Often just moving several paragraphs or changing a description can immediately snap everything into much brighter focus. I take great delight in these moments.
Services
Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Crimson
I currently edit two film and television magazines which list all television programmes and feature films about to be made in the UK. I monitor the trends in commission and talk with production companies on a daily basis.
Writers' Monthly magazine
As editor of Writers' Monthly magazine, I interviewed literary agents, publishers and TV/Radio commissioning editors. I commissioned hundreds of articles from writers on an ongoing basis and promoted new authors. In addition to this I taught fiction writing to groups both in the UK and overseas.
BBC
As well as tightening scripts and trimming out the hiccups that slow down maximum impact of punchlines, I advised on adding characters, rewrites and provided live-editing. I was also the judge of several BBC new comedy award competitions.