Po dvanástich rokoch v knižnom priemysle, ktoré mu dali cenné skúsenosti, ho prepustenie v januári 2000 naštartovalo ako spisovateľa. Rané roky jeho života boli ovplyvnené častým sťahovaním kvôli otcovmu vojenskému povolaniu, čo ho viedlo na rôzne miesta. Tieto zážitky a skoré kultúrne vplyvy formovali jeho život aj tvorbu.
Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, as well as a young King Charles II, face the full might of the powerful Holekhors as alien airships fly in the skies over seventeenth century London.
"Meet ADA LOVELACE, the fast thinking mathematician. She predicted the power of computers long before they were even invented. Find out why her mum kept her away from her mega-famous celebrity dad; why she was mesmerised by mesmerism; and what she planned to do with a MASSIVE machine that weighed four tons and had 20,000 moving parts