I was born in Cardiff, South Wales in September 1967. My earliest memories are starting at Gladstone Primary School (amazing I can remember that far back when I can't go to the kitchen and recall what I went in there for), although I wasn't there for very long as my parents moved house (I wished they'd told me. It took me ages to find them).

Within hours of the realisation that I should write my own funny story, I had the first pages done and the main characters formed. It was as if they'd been waiting in some dark recess at the back of my mind for all that time (and there was me thinking the voices were a bad thing).

And so here we are. Obviously, humour is very subjective and isn't ever going to be as popular as crime or thriller stories because we don't all laugh at the same things, but I'm happy doing what I'm doing because it pleases me and I think that's the most important thing (apart from food, water and oxygen of course. They're quite important).