I entered the graphic arts market in 1977, joining a commercial sheet-fed printer as an estimator/production controller. Three years later I left for Watford College to take an HND in Printing Technology. In 1983 I became a journalist on Printing World magazine and I’ve been writing for the graphic arts market ever since. My first book, Trouble Shooting For Printers, was published by the BPIF in 1990. 

In 2006 I decided to see if I could, in my spare time, be ‘an author’ and in 2009 the historical fiction The Italian Chapel was published by Black & White Publishers in Edinburgh. This was followed in 2010 by the publication of the non-fiction Orkney’s Italian Chapel: The True Story of an Icon. My latest book, Nylon Kid of the North, tells another true story, both hilarious and tragic, of certain autobiographical events that took place between 1981 and 1983.