A bit about the man

About the Author

I am your author Steve, born on the 24th April, 1964, on the outskirts of London. My memories of my childhood are vivid, bright blue skies and long adventure filled days. My teenage years held no limit on what I strongly believed: which was that life needed to be lived to the full, a blank canvas. But jobs were scarce - and so out of pity I am sure, my best friend's father gave me the opportunity of labouring for his long established roofing company. I would wake in the early hours and walk the six miles to work, and after a ten hour shift, I would crawl the six miles back home. But my imagination as always was thinking big, and so why not set up my own roofing company? Based on the limited experience I had gained, armed with my optimistic business plan - I went out and made it happen.

I met the beautiful Sarah when I was twenty, she was just sixteen years of age. Our mode of transport was a bright red Jensen Healey open top sports car, and so life was fun. We became man and wife just seven years later, surrounded by family and many wonderful friends. Our daughter Izzy was born in 1996, when I was thirty-two and life became richer still. Life for the three of us has been blessed.

Our former home the Water's Edge in Staffordshire was purchased in 1998, an inspirational setting of the highest order. It is there that The Water's Edge novel was born. Now, and thanks to the success of The Water's Edge, we live on the South Hams coast, close to Dartmouth, perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking an ever-changing sea, a peace and tranquility that fires the imagination daily.

The concept behind The Water's Edge? Well, I had heard many people discuss and beg the question: 'knowing what you know now, if you were to go back to your early teens...what would you change about your life, what would you do differently?' And so my mind got to thinking... and here we are many years later with the story of Ritchie Angel, having experienced that very scenario.

And your second novel: The Human Jigsaw?

Wow, yes, launched in September, 2015, and I am overwhelmed by the 'quite intense' response. Book groups, up, down left and right of the country, making it their choice of read, resulting in ten of those book groups nominating it as their 'Read of the Year 2015', like I say, totally overwhelming. A piece of work that has been reviewed as 'beautiful, rude, haunting, utterly thought-provoking, a unique concept, unputdownable...' what more could I ask? And so an exciting 2016 for this book, a decision reached to succumb and to secure the right publishing deal that will see this provocative read let loose and fully promoted around the world.

Your third novel, The Land of i, a whisper that it might be released in the Autumn of 2016..?

Yes, just starting draft five, envisaging a draft six and seven, a busy now, a busy spring, a busy summer, with a hopeful 'ta-dah' and a full launch in the autumn of this year - phew. But such has been the pleasure of the evolvement of this one, captivated from day one by every word and the feeling the story evokes, ensuring that I have seen the seasons of 2015 through a window only. The Land of i, set in 1975, a mind to just write and write and write until it is done, a sense of the artist who stands in his white-walled studio, throwing can after can of paint against the blank canvas, to hurl himself against the many colours and vent all emotion via out-of-control limbs until something quite unique and totally unexpected appears. The creation of The Land of i does feel as if I am caught up in exactly this. For a brief synopsis, please go to the book section of this website, and let the journey begin. Take care.