I am an athletics coach and I started out writing coaching and sport-related articles for Athletics Weekly and then Stack.com, adding in speedendurance.com later. I decided I wanted to get more information out to athletes, coaches and parents so decided to take this further and write a book, which was released in 2014, called The Sports Motivation Master Plan . While I was waiting for the book to come back from an editor, I was still getting up early, but not being productive. On a long drive in a mini-bus to an athletics event, I came up with the plot for a novel based around the ancient Olympic games and wrote that over late 2013 and early 2014. I had the bug then and wrote a short contemporary fiction story, but enjoyed the character so much, I turned this into a book as well. The first historical fiction, Hoplite is being released in parts while I write the second and third, but the first contemporary fiction D.E.M. - Deus Ex Machina is due out in March 2015.