When I was about 10 years old I started helping out after school in my Uncle's newsagents and bookstore. I didn't get paid in cash, but I was allowed to read anything I liked in the storeroom behind the shop - as long as I returned it in good condition. It was quite an education, although I didn't appreciate that fully at the time. I progressed from picture comics to all sorts of teenage reading and ultimately to quality authors like Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, H Ryder Haggard, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens and the like. I like to think it was a cheap education, but a good one. It certainly fostered a love of books which has stayed with me all my life. It was a natural step to get started as a rookie scribe in my local weekly newspaper, before moving on to become editor of another weekly. Spells in a national daily and BBC followed before going into Public Relations. Deadline to Danger is my second book and follows Role of Dishonour, also in Kindle.