Hi there, I’m the award winning independent author, humorous novelist and blogger Alan Stevenson. It’s true, I once received an award at school for doing well in athletics. Aaah, the good old days. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll get one for writing.

I currently live in the truly magnificent county of North Yorkshire with my beautiful wife of Irish/Scouse descent who I love the very bones of. Seriously, she’s wonderful.

I’ve written seven novels in my lifetime, yes seven, all of which are independently published via Amazon and are available as either paperback or Kindle download for the guffawably cheap price of £2.99 (Kindle) and £8.99 (paperback).

When I’m not writing I’m spending time with that lovely wife of mine and my family and friends. Either that or mooching around and grumbling about modern life and how music was so much better in my day and age. Well it was you know.

I was born in 1966, just ten days before England won the World Cup; so at least I can say they won it in my lifetime. That meant that the 1970’s were my formative years and to be honest I wish it were still 1974. Oh, I know there were strikes and blackouts and all that, but to me the world just seemed a better place back then; certainly from a comedy point of view.

You see, I grew up watching all those wonderful old sitcoms such as On The Buses and Bless This House and the fabulous Carry On films. They’re not racist, sexist or any kind of ist! They’re of their time, a different time when the world and everyone in it could laugh at themselves, and they were/are arse-clenchingly funny and I’m not afraid to admit it, a great influence on my writing.

I suffer quite horribly from the condition known as fibromyalgia, which came about after SARS tried its level best to kill me in 2003, and is a pain in the back end frankly. Not literally of course, that’s the sciatica. But it does leave me unable to function for long periods of time. Hence, I’ve only written seven novels so far.

Being a greedy so and so, I also have Depressive Anxiety Disorder, Sleep Apnea and Cervical Spondylosis, but I’m living with it all and try to maintain an air of sunny optimism. Not always possible though.

I support Derby County Football Club for some bizarre self-deprecatory reason (I suppose somebody has to, may as well be me) and I love listening to 1970’s progressive rock with a nice big glass of wine in my hand and an incense stick burning away in the background. And yes, I’m one of those curmudgeons who believes Genesis were miles better with Peter Gabriel. And they were you know.

I’m very anti-drugs personally but if you want to take them I won’t judge or tell on you. Your secret is quite safe with me. All I ask is that you refrain from using the word spliff. It just sounds awful. Truly horrible. Like a snake with a lisp. Joint is a much nicer word. As is reefer. Both are acceptable, just don’t expect me to join you. I can think of much better things to put into my lungs, such as good, clean fresh air for example.

Not a lot else you need to know really other than the fact that my novels are a blooming hilarious good read and that Princess Anne once said to the seven-year-old me, “Get out of my f***ing way” but that, perhaps, is a story best left for another time. Lets just say it was one of those magical childhood moments that I’ll never forget.

I hope you enjoy my website, my blog and, more importantly, my books.

A x