A B King, known to his friends and associates as 'Tony' is a retired professional hypnotherapist who now divides his time between writing, working as a volunteer at a local community hall, and caring for his family. Born in England's premier Naval Sea-Port of Portsmouth, the second son of a regular Royal Marine NCO, he remained as a child in the city throughout the second world war, witnessing much of the devastation and hardship associated with this period in history. He openly admits that due to chronic ill-health and the exigencies of the war he left school as a very poorly educated lad to work as an office boy in a brush factory. It was not until he was called to do his National Service that he finally managed to catch up on his education. Most of his service life was spent in Germany, where his life-long penchant for writing and reading books was recognised when he was appointed unit librarian. Returning to civilian life he found it difficult to settle, and tried his hand at a wide range of careers from engineering to salesmanship before he found his true forte as a qualified Therapeutic Hypnotherapist.

Although he started writing stories very early in life, he recalls that his first effort was at the age of about nine years old. His first full-length story he wrote when he was eleven, and it ran to fifteen exercise books before it was finished. These dog-eared relics are still in his possession, and although so obviously the work of a child, give clear evidence of the imagination inseparable from successful creative writing. He broke into print with a book on Self hypnosis in 1986, although prior to this he had innumerable articles and short stories published in various magazines. Having spent so much of his professional life helping people to resolve personal problems he has a keen insight into what motivates the people around him, and this is often illustrated in the incidents he relates in his tales. He still enjoys writing, but he maintains that a work of fiction should be aimed solely at entertaining the reader, and nothing else. His one remaining literary ambition is to take the many notes left by his late father from a lifetime spent at sea, and to turn these into a readable biography.