The series kicks off with Heavy Duty People, where in a few lines, when loyalty to his bike club and his brothers has been Damage’s life and route to wealth, what happens when business becomes serious and brother starts killing brother? They are a hard-nosed set of UK based gritty crime thrillers set in the violent world of outlaw bikers, which are now being developed as a potential TV series. Haha! There’s always that! Can we have a short blurb about The Brethren MC series? But then the pleasure of messing with reader’s heads I suppose is also quite a selfish one. Who do you write for? The audience or yourself?īeing honest, probably myself in the first instance as my books are things I just need to get out. Great pace! I’m sure the readers will appreciate it. It took me another half dozen years to rewrite it about 3 times, chop it in half and play agent/publisher rejection bingo, before deciding to self-publish, and after the first Brethren MC book, I’ve produced a novel a year ever since. I started my first novel shortly afterwards and after I came back to the UK it lay half-finished in a drawer until I decided I’d finish it when I had a two month layoff between jobs in 2000. I remember thinking as I finished it, ‘So where on earth do you start creating a plot like that?’ It’s been downhill, literally, from there.

I was working in Africa and spent New Year’s Day 1994 recovering from a mammoth hangover at a friend’s hut in a village half way up Kilimanjaro by reading Iain Bank’s Complicity at one sitting.

When and why did you start on the path to become an author? Please, give a warm welcome to my first victim of 2016…ahem…guest…IAIN PARKE, the stage is yours!

Heavy Duty Attitude by Iain Parke