Born against the odds to a widowed mother in a neighbour’s bed, raised in an old railway wagon perched on a crumbling cliff, Stuart Aken is currently engaged in writing a scifi novel. The first book of his epic fantasy trilogy, Joinings: A Seared Sky, was published by Fantastic Books Publishing in March 2014, the second was published August 16, and the third is due in time for Xmas. A writer who refuses to be handcuffed to any one genre, he’s written in the fields of romance, thrillers, sci-fi, humour, erotic lit and, of course, fantasy.