How can anyone not write when living in such a vibrant, exciting and on-the-move place as Hong Kong? Since I arrived in 1987, China has gone from being a backwater to a superpower, and Hong Kong has gone from being a city of chancers and flimflam merchants to one of the world’s top three financial centres. And, dare I say, in the past few years, it’s been in the news for a lot of other reasons.

That’s not just one story, but very many stories, and those are the stories I tell. Not just of Hong Kong, but increasingly of the many other parts of the world I’ve been lucky enough to visit or live and work in. My stories and novels are not genre, but my take on the fun and the absurdity of life. They have a strong sense of place and I do my absolute best to get my facts right, but above all they’re about people.

You can find me on Amazon and Goodreads, and both replicate posts on this blog. I am a former chairman of the Hong Kong Writers’ Circle, I am sometimes asked to review books for the Hong Kong Review of Books, and Hong Kong Free Press used to publish some of my rants.

You can read about the entrepreneurial me on LinkedIn. And, when I’m not writing, I hike, sail and do other stuff that I sometimes post about on my blog. And, once every year or two, I send out a special email – thoughts, experiences of being a self-publisher, and short-stories, to those who sign up using the form at the bottom.