Born and raised in the north east of England.  Thanks to a full student grant, I was lucky enough to go to university at a time when most teenagers didn't.  Since then, I have moved around the UK following my career and have been settled in South East Kent for the last 20 years or so.

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My career has been science based, covering molecular biology, biochemistry, biopreservation, freeze drying and pharmaceutical development.  I have published articles in the scientific and popular presses, as well as co-authoring a text book.  Intelligent rather than creative writing.

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Why change?  In the 1990s I worked in a small biotech start-up on the Cambridge Science Park.  One of us was an ex-spy, one of us was  a visiting Russian scientist, and I imported a potential germ warfare agent from a country classified as an unfriendly power.  Let me just say that some interesting things happened.  Events and occurrences that I always felt had the makings of a good story, and, twenty five years later, 'The Death of a Smoker' was written.

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Though if freeze drying is your thing, I can recommend a good text book.