His novels have been published in eight languages to date, including the Italian bestseller L'eridita. 

 

He won the International Media Association of Tie-In Writers award for his Primeval novel, SHADOW OF THE JAGUAR, published by Titan, in 2010, and The inaugural Lifeboat to the Stars award for TAU CETI (co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson), and writing as Matt Langley was a finalist for the People's Book Prize in the United Kingdom. 

 

SILVER, his debut thriller reached #2 in the Amazon UK charts in the summer of 2011 and was among the UK's top 30 bestselling novels of 2011 according to The Bookseller.  The series continues in Crucible, Solomon's Seal, WarGod, Lucifer's Machine, Shining Ones and Argo published by Snowbooks and is available in a variety of languages. 

 

His latest novels include Parallel Lines, a bank heist novel, Glass Town and Coldfall Wood coming from St Martins Press in 2017, and he is currently working on Lost Heroes, a roleplaying campaign in the incredibly popular Trudvang world of Draken & Demoner published by RiotMinds in his native Sweden.

 

He has lived in Sweden for the last 20 years.

 

 

Fun Facts

Silver was written entirely in coffee shops across Europe. Yeah he’s THAT guy

Steve’s first ever story sales were to ‘lads mags’ in the UK. You’ll never find them. He used 12 different names.

His mum found the mags hidden under his bed and threw them out so Steve doesn’t have any copies of his first 12 stories. They were written back in the time of typewriters. Shudder. … and no, they weren’t porn stories. Mind out of the gutter, you. They were all horror stories.

Steve supports Tottenham Hotspur. What this means is if you look closely you’ll find obscure references to the boys from White Hart Lane hidden in his books.

Steve signed the Official Secrets Act in the UK when he worked for the Ministry of Defence

Steve has been escorted at gunpoint more than once. It’s less fun than it sounds.

Steve has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and a Master of Philosophy in Comparative Religions. He dropped out of a PhD in English when he emigrated to Sweden.

Steve has worked as a teacher, a burglar alarm salesman (for a day), a double glazing salesman (for a day), an auditor for a building company (managed a few weeks until he found out one of the partners was embezzling from the firm), in a fish factory (again for a day – there’s a pattern here, can you see it?), and had various local Government jobs before becoming a full time writer.

Steve wrote one of the competitive tenders read before the House of Parliament during the rationalisation of the Navy. They all lost their jobs. Coincidence?

In 2003, Kevin J Anderson burned Steve’s story. In an open fire. Stranded in a cabin. He claims it was a matter of survival.