ABOUT
I am not a typical writer. I don’t work solely in one field. I like to write for young children, teens and adults. I am at home with the most complex and serious or light and fun topics. Recent work has included travel
articles for students, original fiction for 5-7 year olds, a streetwise teenage self-help guide, a film tie in title for The Golden Compass and a fully-fledged ancient history encyclopedia.
I choose my work carefully. Far from taking on anything that is thrown at me, my decision not to specialise in one field is deliberate. It comes from my past, from
working as a 
journalist and editor and from my
ongoing fascination with a large and varied range of subjects.
Confused? Surprised? Intrigued? Some snapshots of my past at Backgrounder and candid answers to oft-asked questions by publishers and editors at Why Clive? may help to explain. To read reviews and testimonies, head to What They Say. To learn more about my writing and photography for magazines and journals, click on Journalism whilst Samples is the place for a small, but growing number of excerpts from recent work.