Nik Morton

Nik Morton is the author of over 30 books, among them the crime thriller The Bread of Tears (reprint of Pain Wears No Mask), a romantic thriller set in Tenerife, An Evil Trade (reprint of Blood of the Dragon Trees), a modern-day vampire and black magic thriller set in Malta, Chill of the Shadow. Also the Tana Standish psychic spy series, Mission: Prague, Mission:Tehran and Mission: Khyber (Manatee Books), plus the westerns Bullets for a Ballot and Coffin for Cash and a sci-fi book Continuity Girl (all from BTAP). He's the editor of A Fistful of Legends, 21 stories of the Old West. His writing guide Write a Western in 30 Days is useful to writers in all genre fiction. Writing as Ross Morton, Nik has 6 western novels published in the BHW imprint: Death at Bethesda Falls, Last Chance Saloon, The $300 Man, Blind Justice at Wedlock, Old Guns and The Magnificent Mendozas.He has co-written (with Gordon Faulkner; joint pen-name Morton Faulkner) a fantasy series Floreskand: Wings, Floreskand: King, Floreskand: Madurava and the fourth, Floreskand: Prophecy, which was published in November 2021 (all Manatee Books).He sold his first story in 1971 and has had over 100 short stories published - some winning awards - in various genres, among them action, adventure, romance, ghost, horror, sci-fi, western and crime. They are collected in 6 volumes (comprising 121 stories): Gifts from a Dead Race, Nourish a Blind Life, Visitors, Codename Gaby, I Celebrate Myself and Leon Cazador, P.I.For over forty years, he has edited periodicals and contributed hundreds of articles, book and film reviews. He has chaired several writers' circles and run writing and screenplay workshops. Since 1995, he has edited books and, for the period 2003-2007, he was sub-editor of the monthly colour magazine, Portsmouth Post, and for 2011-2013 he was Editor in Chief of a US publisher but stepped down to pursue his many writing projects.He lived in Spain with his wife Jennifer for fifteen years but they have now moved back to UK, residing in Northumberland. Their daughter, son-in-law, grandson and granddaughter live nearby.