I grew up in Edinburgh and spent over 20 years in corporate IT before deciding to become self-employed. My career split into various routes including freelance IT, performing and teaching guitar, clinical hypnotherapy and dog behaviour. In 2013, my wife and I bought our first smallholding and started keeping sheep and chickens as well as growing our own fruit and vegetables.
I have learned much about smallholding life and have developed a range of skills such as building, plumbing, forestry, repairing dry stone walls, landscaping, lambing and handling livestock generally. Having at one time or another kept cows and pigs, we have simplified our life by focusing on sheep. These days, we keep a pedigree heard of coloured ryelands and live in the hills of SW Scotland.
More recently, I have phased out the IT side of my life and replaced it with writing. My first two books are non-fiction and are based on my experiences as a smallholder and dog behaviourist.
The books in the Brendan Murphy series are fiction and are based on his experiences as both a clinical hypnotherapist and spirit release therapist. The main character, Brendan Murphy, is a reluctant therapist himself and finds himself dragged into a scenrios involving spirits and their influence on people.
Moss Piglet is the first in the series: A malignant spirit returns from the dead seeking immortality and a young wife is in mortal danger, but events are not what they seem. Can a lovesick, reluctant therapist save her?
Hen Bane is the second in the series: a feud with her sister over a childhood sweetheart and the curse she had put on her husband has left Dorothea mess. When in bumbles reluctant therapist Brendan, what could possibly go wrong?
