The Book Cove

Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? I'm 34, married with a 6 month old son called Toby. We were living in Shoreham-by-Sea near Brighton but right now we're trying something a bit different; living on a small holding in Andalusia in Spain trying to be as self-sufficient as possible; (think solar panels, chickens, orchards, vegetable garden)! I write (fairly dark) short stories, but both my fiction novels have been predominantly for a Young Adult audience. I'd like to write for a novel for a broader audience at some stage. How long have you been writing?  I’ve always been an avid reader but I don’t think I wanted to be a ‘writer’ until my early 20s. It started as a hobby, a few short stories just for fun. I look back on them now and laugh and cringe at how terrible they were! When i moved on to writing novels, i kept getting stuck or abandoning them halfway through - i must have five or six half-finished novels on my laptop! I de...

CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE... 16-year-old Ocean Daley needs to get away from school, his seaside town and wasting his summer working for his mother’s irritating boyfriend. When his mysterious Uncle Frank offers him a place at a summer school for a select group of gifted teens, he jumps at it. But the school isn’t like any other, with classes in hacking, bike racing, psychological tricks and combat. Orca, the secretive organisation behind the school, needs fresh recruits…but for what? Ocean’s father co-founded Orca, and joining the organization feels like a way to honour his memory, as well as strengthen bonds with his strange uncle. Orca demands each teenager push themselves beyond the possible and in return each student gets an impressive salary, international travel and exhilarating field missions — a double life. There is one catch. Joining Orca is a life-binding commitment to support their ‘noble' cause. For Ocean, it’s the challenge in life he’s been looking for. Others migh...