After many years as a manufacturing consultant, I gave up the day job to become a writer and independent publisher. In fiction, I have published four novels and three collections of short stories. I also published The Business of Writing, a series of manuals on business skills for writers. I am editor of Chudleigh Phoenix Community Magazine and Director of Exeter Literary Festival. I am a member of founder member and former chair of Chudleigh Writers' Circle; and am Treasurer of Exeter Writers.