Colin Brush was born in Scotland and reluctantly raised on the small Channel Island of Jersey. After a sojourn studying geology in Glasgow (where he discovered the most likely career path involved wrestling the grease out of rocks) he moved to London and made the questionable decision to indulge his love of literature by becoming a member of the book trade. In consequence, he has worked variously as a bookseller, stock controller, proof reader, copy editor, quarterly zine publisher, catalogue and advertising copywriter and, latterly, a publishing blurb writer. Over the last quarter century he has written the cover copy for well over 5,000 books, encompassing every kind of fiction and non-fiction fit to print, including hundreds of Sunday Times bestsellers. He has also conceived, written and helped execute numerous national poster, radio and video book advertising campaigns.

Wondering if he has learned anything about storytelling from all those books and blurbs, he has been writing longer works of his own. A smattering of short fiction, published in various venues, can be found on the web, if you look hard enough. His first novel Exo will published by Diversion Books in the USA in November 2025.

He lives with his partner and their two daughters in St Leonards on Sea, on the south-eastern coast of England, a few miles from Dungeness, the wave-battered and pebble-beached wilderness that is the inspiration for Exo.