: About Me

I'm a thirty-one year old technical author with more to offer the written word than technical specs and 'how 2s'.

I love writing - fiction mainly, but also comment pieces and general debate. Helium gives me a life outside the boundaries of my everyday work and allows me to flex my writing muscle.

As well as working as a technical author I also work as a part time novelist and screenwriter. My ambition is to some day see my work in print or on the big screen. I believe you have to dream big otherwise you spend your life living small, therefore I often got more than one pot on the boil at once.

My passion is ...

passion itself

I know too much about ...

you name it . . .

My parents always told me ...

wear a coat when you go outside

My childhood ambition ...

playing for Tottenham Hotspur FC

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my daughter

Why I write ...

I just love to write, it's who I am

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

at the moment I'm reading this form, for pleasure I'm battling my way through the fifth Harry Potter (I can't remember the name - they're like James Bond films, they all mould into one)

My first job ...

delivering newspapers - or dumping them all in the woods, depending on which happened first

My best moment ...

mmmmm. . . . .

My inspiration ...

Stephen King

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story

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I was never a keen gardener. Not until my baby girl was born. I still remember the fear in those early days. Fear brought about by a myriad magazine articles, news stories, radio broadcasts, and web blogs. 'Don't feed her this', 'make sure she gets these nutrients', 'fresh not frozen'. Being a relatively parent is overwhelming enough as it is and I don't care what anybody says, even when your firstborn starts eating solids, you are still new at the whole parenting gig without the added nightmare of scare stories and guilt trip journalism. My wife and I were fortunate enough to have recentl...

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