Matt Stanley
Sheffield-born Matt Stanley started out writing Victorian detective thrillers as James McCreet, having written his Master’s thesis on the early development of the genre and been particularly inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. He has since written novels about nineteenth-century lighthouses and modern Greece.
His Bloodhound Books novel is the result of extensive research into the deeds and the mental processes of serial killers, influenced by the writing style of US crime master Elmore Leonard (who replied to Matt’s 1980s fan letter with a typewritten note and some cool advice on writing bad guys).
Matt also teaches writing. He taught the Novel module of the Creative Writing Masters at Sheffield Hallam university and (as James McCreet) is the author of a guide for first-time novelists on how to plan and structure novels. Readers of Writing Magazine know him for his regular articles over the last decade or so.
He has lived in Greece, China, Poland and Spain, working variously as a TEFL teacher, a bookseller, a holiday resort rep, and, for the last two decades, as a corporate copywriter and copyeditor.
