Ray Sullivan

Ray Sullivan (1957 - ) was born in Flint, north Wales. Just before his 21st birthday he joined the Royal Air Force as an airframe mechanic, intially on a three year term which stretched to twenty four years, that saw Ray posted around the UK, Cyprus, Germany and the Falkland Islands working on various aircraft types ranging from the venerable Hawker Hunter to the battlefield horse, the Chinook. He spent the second half of his military career in the technical training environment, as an instructor, training manager and finally as a project engineer on innovative engineering projects. It was during this period that Ray started to write - initially producing a 2 hour comedy script based on the X Files TV series and a series of short stories. Some of these stories were later revisited and morphed onto full-blown novels, and although the TV script never saw the light of day it proved a useful training ground in writing. In all of Ray's work he has drawn heavily on his military experiences and genreally includes a serving or ex serving character to drive his plots foreward. Since leaving the RAF Ray has worked in various project roles and has experienced extended periods away from home, periods that provided the time and opportunity to develop his writing style, ultimately producing four full novels to date plus a number of novels that are work in progress. His first full novel, Parallel Lives, based on a short story written in 2000, was completed in 2004 and is now self published in Kindle and ePub formats and is available on Amazon, Smashwords and Apple iBookstore, as has Ray's second novel, The Journeymen, which grew out of a short story written in 2002 and completed as an unrecognisably related novel in 2005. It was published in Kindle and ePub format in 2011, as was his third novel, Skin, completed in 2007. Ray's fourth novel, DLF (titled Digital Life Form on Smashwords and Apple) was published mid 2011. Ray is currently working on a number of projects, including a comedic parody of the modern thriller genre.