Alan currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, but originally hails from Leeds, England. He is a published author of micro, sudden and flash fiction, short stories, and occasional poetry. He has also completed two full length novels. Alan’s 80,000-word dark mystery, Clearwater Lake, is represented by Meredith Bernstein
“Write drunk, edit sober” ~ Ernest Hemingway
Alan currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, but originally hails from Leeds, England. He is a published author of micro, sudden and flash fiction, short stories, and occasional poetry. He has also completed two full length novels. Alan’s 80,000-word dark mystery, Clearwater Lake, is represented by Meredith Bernstein
“Write drunk, edit sober” ~ Ernest Hemingway
About Me
Having spent the majority of my adult life writing emails for a large global corporation, I
recently decided it was time to start out on a journey to see if I could pen a full-length novel
that was actually good enough to get published. I was under no illusion that I was some
undiscovered JK Rowling or that my writing was ever likely to make me rich and famous.
However, from this dream slowly emerged Clearwater Lake and Ithaka, two 80,000-word
mystery novels, plus a growing portfolio of published shorter works. My style pulls from
many different influences, but the closest I can come to assigning a genre is to describe it as
noir-fiction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_fiction ). When not writing I spend my
time being ordered around by my two teenage daughters, guzzling craft beer with my wife
Gina and following the latest sporting mishaps of Leeds United.
About Me
Having spent the majority of my adult life writing emails for a large global corporation, I
recently decided it was time to start out on a journey to see if I could pen a full-length novel
that was actually good enough to get published. I was under no illusion that I was some undiscovered JK Rowling or that my writing was ever likely to make me rich and famous.
However, from this dream slowly emerged Clearwater Lake and Ithaka, two 80,000-word mystery novels, plus a growing portfolio of published shorter works. My style pulls from many different influences, but the closest I can come to assigning a genre is to describe it as noir-fiction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_fiction ).
When not writing I spend my time being ordered around by my two teenage daughters, guzzling craft beer with my wife
Gina and following the latest sporting mishaps of Leeds United.