ABOUT

Nigel was born in England. He grew up in the Lake District but in his teens he moved to London.

He has been self-employed for most of his working life as a concert pianist, private investigator, video producer, photographer, magazine editor and journalist.

He studied screenwriting in London where he learned the art and craft of creative writing for film and television. In 1999 he set up his own video production company specialising in corporate video. He also undertook television work as a freelance lighting cameraman. In 2004 he founded a specialist video production magazine and although hugely successful he later sold the magazine in order to focus on writing fiction.

Nigel also studied classical piano and after doing the grades (both practical and theoretical) with the ABRSM he attained a Performer’s Certificate with Trinity College, London. He won the North London Music Festival two years running performing Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Nigel also achieved grade 8 in Rock & Pop Drums with distinction with Trinity College and was previously in two rock bands. He was the bassist in Beyond Therapy and the drummer in Charlotte’s Web.

Nigel added another string to his bow by completing a one-year intensive study course attaining a diploma in Private Investigation. For a short while he worked as a freelance private investigator working with two local solicitor firms in Cambridgeshire. Today, this knowledge and experience comes in handy for the crime writing side of his fiction.

Nigel has had many years’ experience in journalism as a writer of technical articles, tutorials, stories, reviews, news and photojournalism, not only for his own magazine but also for many other well-known magazines and newspapers. It was during these years as a writer, journalist and magazine editor that he found his ‘voice’, which made his transition to becoming a novelist an easy one.

In 2011 Nigel had an overwhelming desire to write fiction so he set about researching his debut novel in the then popular dark romance vampire genre. This desire had been smouldering inside him for a few years. Having seen various classic vampire movies in the past he decided to write a vampire story that he himself would want to read – something organic and tangible. After extensive research and planning Nigel completed his debut novel Email From A Vampire which was self-published in July 2012.

After more research and writing during 2013 he completed his second novel, Sophia – a psychological thriller that Nigel says is heavily autobiographical due to the period of depression and self-destruction that he was going through at the time. Sophia was published in January 2014.

In 2014 (after a friend suggested it) Nigel wrote his own harrowing and disturbing autobiographical childhood memoir entitled Boy – a compelling, gripping, brutal and powerfully written true story. Boy was published in August 2015 by Ebury, Penguin Random House, and has come in for much praise.

He has also written a supernatural thriller entitled S.U.N.D.S, a gripping crime thriller entitled The Sound Of Crying, a romantic comedy Digital Romance Disorder, the pacy psychological thriller The Killing of Emily Chandler and the somewhat unorthodox love story, The 95,000 Word Suicide Note.

Nigel writes across a diverse range of genres including: contemporary fiction, psychological thrillers, crime, supernatural and anything else that he feels passionate about.

In his spare time Nigel loves to play classical music on his piano and he also loves to compose rock, pop and electronic music in his small home recording studio.

However, when he isn’t writing his real passion is photography. He studied photography in London and spent many years working professionally out of a studio in the capital where he specialised in fashion, portraiture, product, advertising and editorial photography. His previous clients as a photographer include: Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Johnson & Johnson, Arsenal Football Club, BMW, Harley-Davidson, Ray-Ban, Smirnoff Vodka, National Express Coaches, Practical Photography Magazine and the BBC. I’ve photographed Andy Summers (guitarist, The Police), Wheatus (USA rock band), Jools Holland (musician), Joanna Lumley (actress), Denholm Elliott (actor), Dave Lee Travis (DJ) as well as many fashion and beauty models. During this time he has also worked as a photojournalist where he wrote many articles and news pieces while also taking the accompanying photographs for various UK magazines and newspapers.

Nigel lives and writes in Cambridgeshire, UK.