The fans are everything! The immense satisfaction I get from seeing a review, or download from one of my books is more important than anything else. Knowing that someone took their time to look at something I wrote is special, and I never take it for granted.

I am currently working on my fitness and training series, the 20:TWELVE:20 training manual and diet system then I am going to finish a brand new franchise I have nearing completion about a small town,down on his luck, outcast who receive amazing powers to help fight against an alien invasion. Chosen as the earths saviour,protector and hero he is quick to realise that he is in way over his head, and that he isn't the best candidate for the job! Adult humour abounds in this one, which is one of my favourite projects so far, before I return to my roots with a very secret,but long awaited project.

Writing and achieving. Everyday I want to achieve just a little more than the day before, I don't have to climb Everest but I do want to get more done today than I did yesterday

Personally training others at my local gym, explaining the values of the 20:TWELVE:20 training system and how you can do more in less time, spending time with my partner and children. I like to ride my bike a lot, especially in the summertime, watching tv, sports and comedy, as well as playing excessive amounts of nintendo games, Mariokart 8 especially at the moment.

Mainly on sites like this and from recommendations from my sister, she is a massive book reader and a huge James Patterson and Martina Cole fan.

I do, in fact. It was the story of how Clint Eastwood first began to be the hero in all those spaghetti westerns when he was a young boy. I wrote it when I was about 9 or 10 years old. It finished up at about 30 pages long, fully illustrated, as well as a ten year old could and had villains that when shot, turned into piles of dust, mounted by their eyes! Thinking about it now I had quite a knack for story telling even then! That helped me to begin in my writing career and led me to writing plays for my school, acting in them, directing them and creating sets and props.

The first thing I do is make sure whatever I write is real. No Hollywood dramatisations of facts, but real conversations,real results and consequences. The next thing I do is get all my ideas down on paper, just write it down, let it spill out and sort it at a later date. Then I move onto the end of the story. I have to know how it will eventually play out before I write the beginning. Then comes the hardest part. Gathering all the pieces together and turning it into a structure. No chapters no commas or full stops, just the ideas laid out on paper,moulded into a loose story before the real writing comes into effect. Now I can write the story as it will eventually be known. Maybe 20 or 30,000 words have been written by this time and I then go back to the beginning and re-write and re-write. As I do a re-write I become more affluent as a writer and confident with my subject so I then use that for the next re-write. Taking out any plot holes(which I hate) is an important process,as is ensuring the reader feels empathy and compassion for the characters, death is a big part of my stories, but without having some emotional attachment then it's just someone died, rather than so and so from this book died, that was awful, I can't believe it, now I want the killer caught! It may not be the most efficient format, but it works for me

It was actually a book from school called Grimble and Grimble at christmas. It was only a short story about a young lad who wasn't much good at anything but who always seemed to find a way to come out on top. I must have read and re-read it for years. Just completely inspired me to write a fun story like that, which was what I did with my Clint Eastwood origin story. Before origin stories were cool, if I am honest

I feel a cover is the most important part of the book. It is the first thing a reader will see, it is really also the first page of your story. It needs to convey a sense of what is inside, I hate it when the cover is totally misleading of the subject matter. It can't give away too much of the plot but has to give you a clue as to what is coming. It is what makes your book stand out on a shelf against every other novel around you

Mostly autobiographies. I love to find out all the little secrets of what was going on behind the scenes of programs I watched or sporting events I followed. Mike Tyson, David Jason, Mick foley, Bear Grylls, Frankie Boyle and Bret Hart are my current favourites

My iPad. It works to read books, check the internet and create content. Tablets are fast becoming the ultimate accessory in modern life, but should never replace a pen and paper. It's how we did it when I was a kid and it worked well for me and my generation, and countless ones before me