I first started with my best friend at the time, halfway through our final year of GCSE's, when we attempted and failed spectacularly to write a fantastic Star Wars fan-fic. We ran out of steam though, my friend went to university, and without my partner in crime for support I ran out of steam for the idea.

Turning instead to developing my own vision of the future and creating the bridge known as the Nexus and a new world of Favlas to bring magic back to my writing when there had only been technology before.

In the end it was a mix of two things.

I have never been massively computer literate but publishing with Smashwords was so easy, and the step by steps guides so helpful, that I managed to convert my files.

And secondly it was due to pressure from my loving family, who told me it was about time to ask people who wouldn't feel obliged to be nice for their opinions!

My greatest joy is being able to take myself, and hopefully other people, to a different place. Some of my work is set on Earth but it is greatly changed by magic, and the Nexus. I am keen to keep a good mix of believeable rush hours and traffic jams, in with university courses of magic and people capable of turning into Lions and Tigers.

I enjoy time spent with my partner arguing over who the best wrestler is (I love Dolph Ziggler). Watching Charlie Brown and Snoopy shows and playing Skyrim.

I like to search by the kind of book that appeals to me at the time. Sometimes I like to sit down with a thriller, or a mystery and try to work out how done it. On holidays I like lighter easier readings and will go with a romance or something I think will make me laugh. At work during my lunch break I like short stories that are quick and light.

Discovering a good ebook is about keeping an open mind, and not clicking passed something that might not normally be in one of your usual categories.

The first story I ever wrote, and more importantly, completed is now on sales on Smashwords. I dare not think about the folders of unfinished pages and random chapters that never took root.

I remember the first story my mum ever ready to me as a child, and one I re-read over and over until the spine broke and the pages fell out and it became beyond repair.

Strangely, I can't remember its title now.

But it was about a family of grumpy trolls who slept in uncomfortable beds, and ate stick stew, and were angry all the time. Until, one day, the youngest of the family found a little ray of sunshine and put it in his pocket. It gave him warm feelings that spread to his family, and helped him find honey and nice things to eat.

It taught me that if I didn't carry a little ray of sunshine around me everyday then I would only ever be angry with where I was, and what I was doing. A positive attitude can really take you places. Of course sometimes I forget to pick it up in the mornings, (and on those days I should be avoided at all costs!) but I like to think that I carry a little ray of sunshine and try to share it as often as possible.

There are plenty of very talented indie designers out there, just as there are plenty of talented indie authors. They loiter on a website called freelancer.co.uk, and even for very modest prize money a fair few will create wonderful images and designs based on a blurb.

I don't have just one device. My smartphone has the capability to download reading apps like kindle, while I also have access to Google Books through the app store.

I would never only buy books in one retailer shop, so I don't limit my choice of device either.

My desk is actually little more than a folding lap table i balance on my sofa.

It is very plain, and quite wobbly, and if my partner had his feet up on the sofa it leans dangerous to the right, making typing an interesting experience!