I'm from Liverpool, England, and spent 10 years in Paris in my 20s, teaching English. Had a really great time in that wonderful city.

I started writing then; short stories mainly.

I come from a family of clairvoyants, and in the 1990s I ran an agency promoting the work of psychics and mediums on TV, radio, and in theatres. I wrote (ghosted!) the autobiography of one of the UKs best known mediums of the time - it was published around 1995.