Born in England, I came to New Zealand at age 12, living in Nelson where I dallied backstage at the Theatre Royal. In 2006 I escaped from working in photolabs and leaped with unbounded delight into a new career as a writer, editor and photographer. I now live on the North Shore of Auckland New Zealand where the latte culture rules, having a wonderful time writing crime fiction and helping other writers to publish their work. I have two theatre mysteries and a thriller in print (and ebooks) along with a couple of theatre shorts, and have just completed two post-apocalyptic novels in the Sunstrike series that I'm really excited about! They're set in the days and months following a big solar storm that wipes out all electrical technology on Earth, and follow the lives of a mother (in Sunstrike) and son (in The Journey Home) who are far apart when the storm hits.