I was born in Doncaster, UK and emigrated to Brisbane, Australia with my family in

                                                              1972. These days, I live with my partner, Jon, in the small coastal fishing town of Tin

                                                              Can Bay, located near Fraser Island, on Queensland's Cooloola Coast.

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                                                              I have always had a love of the sea, and after learning to sail, I was an active sailor

                                                              until a boating accident during a delivery trip ended that. While I recovered, I was the

                                                              Race Officer at my local yacht club, during which I was PRO (Principal Race Officer) for

                                                              several state and regional regattas. I also operated a yacht racing photography

                                                              business for ten years, photographing club, regional, state, national and international

                                                              regattas at clubs around southeast Queensland. These experiences provided plenty of

                                                              ideas, knowledge and experience for sailing stories.

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                                                              During my sailing/boating "career", I was an active club racer crewing on a selection

                                                              of trailer-sailers and keelboats at my local yacht club. This included winning a Club

                                                              Championship in 2004, crewing on a Cole 28 keelboat.

 

                                                              In 2005, I crewed on Brindabella at Hamilton Island Race Week, finishing 17th overall

                                                              in the Cruising Division (out of 280 boats!) Not a bad effort for an "old clunker"

                                                              cruising boat doing double duty as a "race" boat! Mind you, among the crew of 8 were sailing master Anthony and navigator Roger, who had 2 Melbourne-Osaka double-handed races and several Sydney to

Hobarts under their belts!

 

I've also competed in four Bay to Bay Yacht Races, including overall division and class wins in 2008. Other sailing activities include yacht deliveries and cruising along the Queensland coast, and five years as a volunteer rescue boat crew and radio operator with the local Coast Guard marine rescue unit. My sailing and boating adventures and ongoing interest in yacht racing provides the inspiration for the Aidan Grifford Sailing Adventure Series.



I have always been a "scribbler", but it is only thanks to the encouragement and support of my partner that I finally achieved the dream of becoming a published author. The availability of self-publishing opportunities with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) assisted with the fulfilment of this dream. I have now written and published 24 novels, and am writing my 25th.



I originally published Without A Trace (August 2014) as a stand alone book, but from little things big things grow. That book spawned the Aidan Grifford Sailing Adventure Series and became the first book in the series. I've now published 14 books in the Aidan Grifford Sailing Adventure Series. Without A Trace was followed by Maverick (May 2021), The Getaway (December 2014), Mistraal (July 2021), Zulu (June 2019), Black Diamond (June 2020), Raider (February 2021), Transpac (July 2022), Southern Cross (November 2022), Fastnet (July 2023), Caribbean (March 2024), The Middle Sea (November 2024), Samara (September 2025), and Seabird (July 2026).

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The 3 Stories Series (published out of sequence), includes Cobham Road (July 2020), Cold Case (October 2020) and Storm Shot (August 2014). These books feature the same family of characters from the Aidan Grifford series, though the story in each book is told by a different character. They provide an interesting insight and backstory into Aidan's early life.

The Meredith Loxton Detective Series takes me back to my crime "roots" and consists of 5 books: Vanishing Act (February 2023, Back From the Dead (November 2023), The Burning (May 2024), Taken (February 2025), and The Body in the Forest (February 2026). I am now writing the 6th book in the series, Hide and Seek, which is the sequel to The Body in the Forest. Publishing is scheduled for late 2026.

 

I have published 2 stand alone novels. The first, Wicked Games, in August 2014, and my second, Blackbird, in December 2020.

 

For more info about my current and upcoming writing projects, click HERE.

 

​My eBooks and paperbacks are available through Amazon global marketplaces (the web links are on this website and my Facebook page) and are available to read through Kindle Unlimited (KU) and the Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL).

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