I am happily married and have two children, both boys. I began writing in 2003 when illness forced me to give up work. I love to write poetry and have had several poems published along with a few short stories and a non-fiction piece about local coal mining. It was my eldest son who encouraged me to write some teenage fiction. He felt that a void needed to be filled following the last TV broadcast of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". With this in mind I decided to write a supernatural mystery thriller to best suit his needs. The stories of Annabelle Davies were born.