I was born in Ireland, a misty, indebted and quarellsome isle. Our roots go back to a small estate deep in the Mountains of Mourne, near the Silent Valley, in County Down, Northern Ireland.
I went to school in Dublin, drank way too much, studied English and history, then business, then IT at Oxford University. I spent ten years working...
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I was born in Ireland, a misty, indebted and quarellsome isle. Our roots go back to a small estate deep in the Mountains of Mourne, near the Silent Valley, in County Down, Northern Ireland.
I went to school in Dublin, drank way too much, studied English and history, then business, then IT at Oxford University. I spent ten years working with major International banks and firms servicing them in the City of London, the creaking hub of world finance. Then I got fired for telling my boss, “What part of NO do you not understand.” I still miss that yellow plastic pencil sharpener.
Now I have two kids to keep me busy and a day job in IT to pay the bills. I was first published by a school newspaper when I was ten, for a short story about aliens getting lost. I still have it. I’m about 35 years waiting for another publishing contract. I have just been offered one.
In 2007 I won the Outstanding Novel submitted award at the Southern California writers conference. I am a member of the Irish Writing Centre, two “live” writing groups in Dublin and online writing communities in England and the States. I’ve been writing almost all of my life, and nearly every day for the past 11 years. I spent five years researching and writing a historical novel, three years learning the craft writing a thriller, and the last few years writing urban murder mysteries. My research has taken me all over the Mediterranean, from Morocco to the tinchiest Turkish Islands. I like listening to the stories of strangers.
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