I'm just an ordinary guy (you know?) who decided to write a book.

Years passed.
Notebooks were filled.
Pens ran dry, and keyboards were worn out.

Finally, in 2013, I finished the first book in what was only supposed to be a trilogy. Surviving the Evacuation 1-3 are the journals of Bill Wright, a political strategist stranded in London after a zombie outbreak (and a subsequent nuclear war). Trapped, alone, starving, his fight for survival soon becomes a quest to find those responsible for this outbreak.

Little did I expect it to be successful. Even less did I expect the international response to my fictional outbreak to be mirrored in our real life pandemic. Quarantines, lockdowns, a vaccine developed in Oxford, the Prime Minister’s mysterious disappearance, a contentious U.S. election, and, of course, the street battles over toilet paper.

But so successful were these early books that I continued the story, moving away from the quest for revenge, and focusing on how these last few thousand survivors in the Atlantic would build a new society.

Over the years, Surviving the Evacuation has grown into a monolithic saga of 19 novels and one short-story, plus two mini-series spin-offs. Here We Stand describes the collapse of the United States from Patient Zero in Manhattan. Life Goes On charts the struggle for survival in the Pacific. Is this the end? Hardly. The series has always been allegorical, but even more so since our own pandemic began. Again, these survivors face a similar challenge to ourselves. To whit, the rapidly deteriorating climate. Made more pronounced by the lingering radiation, decaying toxic cities, and growing oceanic dead-zones, they (like us) will have to consider extreme geo-engineering and political solutions in order for the species to survive.

Humanity survived the evacuation, but will democracy survive what comes next?

I’ve taken an occasional break from this series, but being utterly addicted to writing, I’ve used that time to write a few other stories.

Work Rest Repeat is set within a quasi-dystopian city, one of only three to survive The Great Disaster some sixty years before. The 120,000 survivors are working, and have been for the past six decades, on constructing colony ships to evacuate this last remnant of humanity to Mars. It was a desperate plan, but one that seems to be have worked. A launch date has been set. A lottery is to be held to choose the first colonists but, with only twenty-four hours before the election, two murders threaten to disrupt humanity’s plans.

Strike a Match: a transatlantic five-book thriller set in a world of rationing and ruins, democracy and despotism, steam trains and smart phones. This isn't the story of how the apocalypse is survived, but of what happens next.

Coming Soon: Lots of new books. :)

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