Give us a short biography in three sentences or fewer.
I grew up in north London, left school at 16, and started a second-hand book and bric a brac business. The shop and flat burned down in 2000, and I spent a couple of years travelling, mostly to Zimbabwe and New Zealand, mostly watching cricket. I have one surviving stepdaughter and three step-grandchildren; I have no car, no TV and no cats.
When did you start writing? What was your first sale?
I started writing as a tiny child: as soon as I learned to write, that’s what I did. I think my first sale was a zombie story to Mary Danby for the Fontana Book of Horror in 1978, and not long after I sold a second story, The Seal Songs, to 19 magazine, and then to an anthology.
Have you always written short stories or is there a…
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You grew up in north London? I’ve known you 40+ years and always thought you grew up in south west London. Or has your interviewer made a mistake?
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We lived in North Harrow until I was eight. I consider that the greater part of “growing up”. Then we moved to Surrey, near Hampton Court, not actually London at all. I apologize if I’ve been misleading you for forty years!