Colin Brush was born in Scotland and reluctantly raised on the small Channel Island of Jersey. After a sojourn studying geology in Glasgow (where he discovered the most likely career path involved wrestling the grease out of rocks) he moved to London and made the questionable decision to indulge his love of literature by becoming a member of the book trade.

In consequence, he has worked variously as a bookseller, stock controller, proof reader, copy editor, quarterly zine publisher, catalogue and advertising copywriter and, latterly, a publishing blurb writer. Over the last quarter century he has written the cover copy for well over 5,000 books, encompassing every kind of fiction and non-fiction fit to print, including numerous Sunday Times bestsellers and a considerably larger number of not Sunday Times bestsellers.

Wondering if he had learned anything about storytelling from all those books, he turned his hand to novel writing. A smattering of short fiction, published in various venues, can be found if you look hard enough.

He lives with his partner and their two daughters in St Leonards on Sea, on the south-eastern coast of England, a few miles from Dungeness, the wave-battered and pebble-beached wilderness that is the inspiration for his forthcoming novel, EXO.

Agent Contact: John Berlyne