Darren Walker

In his life Darren Walker has made a living doing many jobs that would fill up a CV which would show that earning a living can be a dull but necessary evil. These roles tended to be office based and one day he realised that there was more to life han staring at a computer screen. So, he decided to become a writer and spend his spare time staring at a screen as well.

The Muse visited him when he wrote a joke article for a friend in the USA informing him of the 'correct' etiquette for a business trip to Newcastle. Fortunately, the American was not that gullible and wisely ignored the instructions and survived the trip. However, he liked what he read and shared it with his friends. This persuaded Darren that he might just possibly be able to write. After that he wrote some more random stuff but didn't have an outlet for them until he networked with a close friend in Alabama, Emma, who persuaded the owner of an arts website in Mississippi to read one of his comedy articles. Luckily the perceptive and wise American liked what he saw and started to feature them. These ranged from subjects covering such serious issues as self-harm, depression and Rosa Parks with more light-hearted topics reporting on topics such as songs banned by the BBC, his meeting a former member of Genesis in a toilet and unusual things removed from people's bodies in hospital emergency departments. Despite wanting to shock the American readers he failed abysmally but that didn't stop him from trying. Soon the writing passion had well and truly taken over his soul.

Sadly, the website closed down and he was left with creative urges but no outlet, so he decided to try his hand at writing a novel and foisting that on an unsuspecting world.

Allowing his strange and surreal sense of humour to run riot he began creating his own versions of Hell and Heaven with demons and angels that were, quite often in the literal sense, at each other's throats.

Along with his first two novels in the Hell and Heaven series, Closing Shop & The Sword of Uncreation Darren has written 8 more stories in the series, a standalone comedy set in a fictional South American country and he is currently writing the third in a series of medieval comedies.

Not only that they he has won two author awards which currently take pride of place in the doorway to his flat. This ensures that nobody misses them when they visit him.