Genre screenwriter, script doctor, script consultant, novelist and author of more than 30 non-fiction books on folklore and the paranormal. BA in Film & Media Studies (University of Stirling) and Master Screenwriter Certificate (ScreenwritingU, Los Angeles). Winner of the Genre Summit Screenplay Competition, the Visceral Films International Horror Screenplay Contest and the University of Chichester Thresholds Prize for Non-Fiction. Member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain. Likes dogs.