Mark Swain has a low boredom threshold. As a child he was something of a fantasist and compulsive liar. This, he says, has fitted him well to fiction writing. He has spent his life living around the world, collecting experiences via numerous jobs and several changes of career after initially attending Art College in Hastings, UK. He has only had one wife, however (25yrs) and they have 3 grown-up children. Mark became a full-time writer in 2009 after his young son persuaded him to take 10-months off to cycle 10,000-miles to Japan. It released him from running his successful management consultancy company. It also resulted in a prizewinning short story, published in 2010 followed by his first book - Long Road, Hard Lessons - in 2012. With a diverse kit-bag of memories from an eventful life and an out of control imagination, he has since published a book of short stories and has several other books as work in progress.