Richard was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire - the city of Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin and David Garrick. He has been writing fiction from the age of 8 (his first novel being a blatant rip off of Arthur Ransome) although the twin evils of being his own hardest critic and the necessity of having to earn a living by more conventional ways (most recently as a Technical Author in the IT industry) has meant that so far very little of his work has been offered for publication, let alone published.
In the past, Richard has also worked as a Laboratory Technician, an Archaeologist (he was on the permanent staff of the Sutton Hoo excavations in Suffolk in the mid 1980s), and as a Software Developer and Tester. He was once an active member of an amateur theatre company and did every job available from selling programmes front of house through to directing his own plays.
Richard has travelled in North America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, but despite his love of travel he has no ambition to be a travel writer, just in case the writing gets in the way of the travelling. One of his more recent adventures was to spend some time living amongst a Berber tribe in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
His interests include food and drink, cinema and theatre, history and archaeology.
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