About Malcolm Believe it or not, until Easter 1996, Malcolm was a lecturer in Chemistry at the Open University. The job left little time for fiction writing which he tackled mostly after midnight. Now he is a full time writer. Many people think it odd and fascinating that a scientist should also be a novelist but Malcolm does not find it strange.
Scientists have to be creative to carry out research.
Anyone who can stick to a task, is imaginative and knows how to construct a sentence, has the credentials for writing a novel. Malcolm claims that novel writing is not so removed from Chemistry as one might think. In one life, I mix chemicals, stew them for a while and observe the reaction. In the other, I mix characters, stir in a bit of conflict and, again, observe the outcome. He began writing stories whilst taking a D.Phil in chemistry.