I have always been fascinated by off-beat characters and off-beat ideas - perhaps because of my upbringing in a fringe religious movement. My first foray into publishing was with a critical history of the Jehovah's Witnesses. That led to various spin-off articles and lectures but my writing has since then taken me into fiction.It's still the off-beat, however.

Peter Bunderlin, the main character of my first novel, is definitely no run-of-the-mill guy. He's compulsive, obsessive and manipulative. And he's a convicted arsonist. But he's the hero. Other folk are the bad guys.