Thomas Emson was born in Bangor, Gwynedd

Bangor, Gwynedd

Bangor is a city in Gwynedd, north west Wales, and one of the smallest cities in Britain. It is a university city with a population of 13,725 at the 2001 census, not including around 10,000 students at Bangor University. Including nearby Menai Bridge on Anglesey, which does not however form part of...

, Wales

Wales

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, in 1966, and raised on Anglesey

Anglesey

Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

. He now lives in Whitstable

Whitstable

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, Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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. He went to college in Bangor to do a degree in Communication but took a creative writing module in his third year which got him started as a writer. His first language is Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

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After graduating, he took job as a reporter with the local newspaper group. His first novel was published in 1996 – it was a Welsh-language horror story. Subsequently there have been another three novels and two collections of stories in Welsh before his first English language novel: Maneater

Maneater (novel)

Maneater is a 2008 horror novel by the Welsh author Thomas Emson, published by Snowbooks. It is Emson's first novel in English, following three others in Welsh. It concerns a werewolf, Laura Greeacre whose family has waged a secret war with the Templeton family for almost 3,000 years. The book...

, which was published on 1 April 2008 by Snowbooks. Thomas Emson's second book, Skarlet, is about vampires in London and was published on 2 March 2009.http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1905005989

Thomas Emson states that currently he "lives in Kent with a wonderful woman, an elderly cat, an adopted dog and two house rabbits. "