I've been writing for pretty much as long as I can remember.

I got into ice hockey mostly by chance - I went to one game on a date, and I was instantly hooked. Considering that I'd always thought that sports just weren't my thing, it's taken over my life to an unexpected extent. 

I go to a lot of live hockey games, and from the very start I thought that there were stories to tell about the kind of hockey teams I get to see, the kind of teams who don't have much of a budget or the best facilities, the kind of guys who don't make a living from hockey and in most cases never will.

British ice hockey is a very small world. Everybody seems to know everybody else, at least within a league, and so I make a point of keeping my real life separate from my writing. These stories aren't about real people or real teams, but anybody can recognise bits of themselves in fictional characters and I prefer not to let those lines get any more blurred.