Matt Wingett started writing in the 1990s as a scriptwriter for UK TV cop show The Bill, as well as writing national newspaper articles and stories. He is the publisher of a series of Portsmouth, UK, related books, and has written stage shows that have been performed around the UK. He has lived and worked in Egypt as an English teacher for the British Council, ran a successful rare book dealership for 10 years and has worked in publishing, copywriting and advertising.
His interest in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was awakened when he discovered that Doyle not only lived in Matt's home town of Portsmouth, but that he created Sherlock Holmes while living there, as well as first getting into Spiritualism. Matt has a love of the bizarre and unusual, and writes short stories combining his interests of Portsmouth and the strange and ghostly. He is currently working on a novel, The Snow Witch, due for publication this winter.