Ian works full time and owns his own internet based business. Having been writing short stories and poetry for many years his first published novel has just been released. The story of how it came to be makes for good reading... He was set a challenge by his younger sister Helen to write a zombie story for all ages, so he set to work using his mobile phone, originally tapping away between legal breaks or waiting to load/unload at his place of work, before posting directly to facebook for anyone who wanted to read. The first 40% of the novel "Salby Damned" was written that way, before it got to be too big. Then after much thought, he decided to turn it into a full blown published work, his first. The book took just six weeks to write and another four to publish and Ian has since written a short story collection book for children, just to see if he could. That book, The Amazing Adventures Of Ken Brown - Australian Wombat is out now. He lives and works in Selby, North Yorkshire but is originally from Birmingham, England having moved north many years ago.