Brief biography of author

In the past, I have written four complete novels and various other forms of fiction, though I have not yet found a publisher for my fiction.

I then worked as a technical author for several years, then trained in traditional Chinese acupuncture, and I am now a practising acupuncturist. More information can be found on my acupuncture website: www.curepoint.co.uk

During my acupuncture training I started teaching music, as a way of making ends meet, and I still teach a few select students.

At the start of 2008, I completed a non-fiction work, The Trouble with Conversation, which I had been working on for several years.

I have always been fascinated by every aspect of communication and personality, and most of my works reflect these interests. And now that I am working as a healer, I’ve found that I am also drawn towards writing about holistic healing.

I have begun planning various non-fiction works in this field, and I have started work on a new novel that uses holistic healing as a theme.

I was born in Wolverhampton. My family moved to the West Country of England when I was about five, which I have recently learnt was the reason for me developing a skin disease ('psoriasis') at the age of about six, which remained until my early twenties and still returns from time to time. The trauma of being separated from whatever friends and home environment that I knew then, produced a 'separation trauma' within me, which was then expressed on my skin. I think that some part of that trauma is still lurking deep within me. I was always a sensitive soul. This, and various other emotional traumas in my childhood, were probably what made me the curious being that I am.

I now live in Bristol. I have almost finished healing myself (if that task is ever capable of being finished), and now spend my energies on healing other people, in my acupuncture practice. I think that my writing is also an expression of my desire to heal. Its exploration of communication, and of the rifts that exist between us all, was probably born out of my lifelong awareness of these things and my desire to heal them—perhaps that healing, also, can never really be finished. But that will not keep me from trying.