Hi, I’m Rhys and it’s nice to meet you. I’m a writer from Wales and have to date published three novels. My most recent is The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway – a story about a boy called Sam, his superhero alter ego The Phantasm, and a girl called Sarah.
My other two books are The Suicide Club, which is a coming of age story set in 2004, and On The Third Day, an apocalyptic adventure story that imagines a disease that dissolves hope – a kind of old school, Old Testament kind of apocalypse that exists beyond science.
I live in a city called Cardiff with my partner Amy (who is a much more successful writer than I am) and my three cats, Henry, Sheldon and Aniseed.
In the day time I work at Cardiff University’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, helping the incredible researchers there get the word out about what they’re doing. They inspire me every single day.
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. It all started when I was seven and I wrote a 16 page epic story called Lost in the Woods, about a monster picking off each of my friends in turn. It ended with the line, “and I knew this was… THE END.” From these inauspicious beginnings, my love of writing, and reading, has continued my whole life.
Rhys Thomas 