Who me?

I’m Jerry Ibbotson. I was born in 1969 in London but spent my childhood in various parts of the UK thanks to my dad’s job. Would you have guessed that being a weather man would mean so much moving around?

I was a BBC radio journalist for nearly ten years, finally ending up reading the news for the likes of John Peel on Radio One. I left the BBC in 2000 to try ‘different things’ and have been running my own sound production company since then. We do a lot of work in the video games industry which impresses my children a lot. Oh yes, I’m married with two kids.

Writing has always been in my blood, right from Junior School when I used to come up with mini epics when the other kids were writing a couple of lines about their dog and running off to play in the shop corner. I started writing ‘proper’ fiction while I was a student but it never went anywhere. That’s probably a good thing.

With Chosen bouncing around inside my head for years and years I knew I had to do something with all those weird ideas: part ‘ordinary’ book and part fantasy story. So in 2005 I started with the words, “He always hated train journeys at night…”

If you want to tell me what you thought of Chosen, feel free to email me. Don’t let all the pain and effort it took to get the thing into print put you off being honest.