Martyn Chapman was conceived in South Wales and graduated in Marketing at the University of Central Lancashire. His passion to write has always been a huge part of his personality, but like a petrified cross-dresser, he vowed to hide his shocking secret from family and friends. He hand-wrote an experimental novel in a student bedsit, his shame concealed behind a row of soggy pants that were strategically draped across a rickety old clothes horse. Yet concealing his depravity from an unsuspecting partner brought even darker periods of frantic deception. The terror of being discovered at his personal computer with a frozen screen, led to his subtle distraction of wearing obscure and decorative bonnets, but as fashions became blurred and more accepting, he was forced to find another writing sanctuary. Like a deranged mid-wife, Martyn emerged from his garden shed covered in cobwebs, creosote, and potting soil, and the fiendishly intriguing Hormones and Crumble was born. Following a chilly plunge into an Amsterdam canal and a visit to a desolate Moscow fairground, his second book, Hassle Castle, was unmasked. This was quickly followed by the romantic escapades of the deliciously calamitous Adam Bennett in Saving Worms; and then two absorbing Christmas stories. His latest book, The Gatehouse Haunting, is a complete departure, and the story summons a persuasive cocktail of suspense, anticipation, mystery, and terror. Titillated? Dumbfounded? Looking for salvation? Please visit my website at: http://www.martynchapmanauthor.co.uk/