Martin Sketchley grew up in Tamworth, Staffordshire. Following a brief but passionate affair with music, he began writing behind a Tamworth market stall at the beginning of the 1990s, and sold his first short story to small press magazine Xenos in 1994. Having worked in retail and then catalogue publishing, he is now a freelance writer and editor. He lives in Birmingham, UK, with his wife, Rosaleen, and their two children.
