The goth scene inspired me greatly. It's the cause and inspiration behind a series of five novels I've written. Still now, it influences my works, perhaps because it seems so black and white on the surface, more so than other scenes, yet it bubbles with life and colour and banality the deeper one goes.

The club scene is a challenge to write about; too distanced won't work yet, if you're in the midst of it, you can't see the people for their masks. Mick Mercer interviewed me at sixteen, having read my first (proper) two novels and decided I had talent.

Yet here I am, still writing away but only published in a zines and e-zines. London has also been a great influence on me though it doesn't feature a lot in my stories. It's just too big... Rural Suffolk has played a stronger role in the novels.

As for visual arts, my drawing and painting has never been that strong, but I found my medium in woodcuts (MDF-cuts really). The simple lines and monochrome nature really appeals to me which is why now the images I create have that same feel.