Visions of Whereafter is David Muir's first novel; he has no previous experience of writing fiction. David Muir was born in Scotland in 1947 and was schooled at a number of boarding schools in the Midlands area. After a spell trying to be a school teacher, David Muir spent over twenty years as a lecturer in one of the new universities in the West Midlands region, where he wrote a number of technical books in computing. David Muir is retired from his university and spends some of his retirement writing fiction and poetry. David Muir lives with his wife and their cat in Solihull.