Alex has been writing professionally since the mid 1980's, both under his own name and the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell. His most popular work as Sandy is the best-selling Cain series of swashbuckling science fiction novels, most of which have been successfully translated into Russian, French and Spanish. Under his own name he has also written novels, screenplays, comic strips, and material for role-playing games, as well as short stories for magazines and original anthologies. He also has innumerable articles, reviews, and critical essays to his credit, in publications ranging from New Statesman to Model Mart. Alex holds an MA in Screenwriting from the London College of Communication - University of the Arts London and is a member of The Society of Authors and East Anglian Writers.