I was born in 1967 in Norwich and apart from bouts of extended travelling have lived in this "fine city" for most of my life.
I began writing in 1987, with the assistance of the Government's Enterprise Allowance Scheme. Whilst during that year of assistance I wrote two novels, none of those are ever likely to see the light of day. What the scheme achieved, however, was to buy me the time to hone my writing skills. At the end of the year, I had written most of the crap out of me, and following another period of travelling from late 1990-1992 I returned to England afresh.
Most of my published fiction to date has been short stories. I prefer the short form, particularly since the long haul of novel writing has never really appealed to me. To date I've had over 60 short stories published, in a variety of genres, although slipstream is my default style and one which I think suits my thinking as well as the way in which the stories come.
As well as the short fiction, I continue to write the occasional novel, one of which was published in the States by an independent press. I'm currently looking for a publisher for two more novels. More about those can be found elsewhere on this site.
In November 2002, frustrated by the lack of short story collection publishers in the UK, I formed the independent publisher, Elastic Press, specialising in short fiction. In 2005 Elastic Press won the British Fantasy Society's Best Small Press award. I was quite pleased about that.
In addition to writing and publishing full time, I also run Redwell Writers - a weekly writers group based in Norwich - and also appear regularly at conventions and book launches. My typesetting and web design skills are also available at a very reasonable price. For any information about those, or if you wish to contact me for any other reason, please email at the address below.
Finally, since September 2005 I have been very happily married to Sandie, and since October 1999 have been the proud father of Sarah. Thanks go to both of them for keeping me sane.
Andrew Hook
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