I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
I absolutely adore writing books with paranormal elements - and I love creating the often-complex worlds and/or plots that go along with those stories - but at the heart of all of that ,you have the characters, and when you get down to the core of it, it's spending the time with the characters that is what I truly love.
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.
I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'