Alaric McDermott

I'm 45, and I live in Oldham with one wife, two children (Cameron and Robyn), one dog and two cats. I'm prolific and cowardly in my writing. Or, more kindly, a very poor promoter (a ginormous novel not only unpublished but unsubmitted, bucketloads of unpublished and unsubmitted stories.) I love my wife, my kids and, unrequitedly, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but I am constantly betrayed and disappointed in love by Manchester City Football Club. Short of decent role models, I pretend to be an English Robert Westermeyer. My key personal characteristic is confusion.

Writing? Two strands, really. I love science fantasy and mild horror (twist in the tail stuff) but recent work has been a little harder. Poverty and negative isms obsess me to such a degree that I have my own table in the pub with warning lights around it. There is a warrant for my arrest in connection with karaoke singing. This is one Oriental activity at which I will take on Rick H.