I'm a 24-year old English author, seeing out the final months of my time at university and looking forward to getting out and unleashing my books on the world. I'm working on an eight-part series of character-driven spy thrillers, the first of which was completed last year and is undergoing some surgical revision to make it just that little bit more exciting, suspenseful, sexy and explosive.

The aim is to have a website spreading the good word to all you good denizens of the 'net by the mid-point of this year, so keep an eye out and know that any support is immensely appreciated. More information will be forthcoming once my agent in the field has come in from the cold (it's chilly in England at this time of year). I've been an avid gamer since I was a wee lad, gripping a NES controller in my hands and comprehensively failing to get past those infuriating Hammer Bros on Level 8-3 of Super Mario Bros.

I've stuck with Nintendo since then (not for any animosity towards the other console makers of course - Nintendo just make games I enjoy and that I've grown up with), apart from a brief sojourn with a Sony PlayStation, several woeful attempts to play Half-Life 2 using a laptop touchpad, as well as sporadically managing to wrangle a turn on my sister's beloved Sega Saturn. In addition to burping out the occasional novel, I'm a passionate critic, writing reviews and articles of films, book and games for my school magazine and university newspaper, for which I created and edited its film section.

While primarily a film geek, the evolution of the games industry over the course of my short lifetime has fascinated me and provided vast quantities of content for some incendiary pieces of work - perhaps a few more might spring up on here? My Favourite Games of All Time (because who doesn't love having a few Of All Time lists?) are GoldenEye 007 (which I still play, along with Perfect Dark, at least once a year to remind me of its glories), Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (on my American SNES, naturally), Gunstar Heroes (thank you Virtual Console for bringing this back into my drawing room!), Super Mario Bros 3 (I don't know who told Shigsy Miyamoto-san that raccoons could fly, but I'll love them forever) and No More Heroes (take your time with the sequel, Rising Star, it's not like I'm CHEWING MY OWN HANDS OFF WAITING FOR IT!). I hope you find great enjoyment in my many scribings, and please keep an eye out for upcoming news on my novel(s) and website. Good gaming, everyone!