• The Story Behind the Book

    Just Another Week in Suburbia: The Inception

    I thought I’d look a little at the creative process behind my books. Back in 2012, with several unpublished manuscripts behind me, I decided to write a novel that would be THE ONE, as in the one that sold. Not that I could make that determination. Arts are so subjective that you’re always at the whim of taste. But I decided that up to that point, my writing had been … too safe. In any of the arts, you’re often working through a filter, worried what people will think of your work. It’s not the anonymous reader that’s a concern. It’s the people you know – friends, and family. What…

  • Books

    August Falling

    Title: August Falling Publisher: Pantera Press Publication Date: 2 September 2018 Category: Suburban Noir Paperback: (234x153mm, 295 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-925700-03-9 Ebook: 978-1-925700-07-7 The past. Sometimes we can’t escape it. After a bad relationship, August is trying to piece his life back together. It’s not perfect. His flat is small, he works in a call centre, he can ‘t finish the book he’s working on, and he’s socially challenged when it comes to women. When August meets Julie, he finds she’s everything he isn’t – confident, composed, and purposeful, despite her troubled childhood. With her, August finally begins to feel he can be himself. But Julie has a secret that…