Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye..

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this id….

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fict….

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world….

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live qu….

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just ….

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut..

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot aro….

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a v….

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rar….

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you….

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the gener….

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went throug….

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things….

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come….

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity..

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleu….

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in….

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really..

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it ain….

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if ….