Creator of experience and inspiration.
I am J. A. Gunnar, London-born, with a background in screen performance. I do not think of myself as a writer or an author. I build experiences, on the page and, one day, on the screen.
They say write what you know. I say write what you feel. What you know gets you the street. What you feel gets you the weight of walking down it at thirteen, when everything is about to change.
My method is exaggerated truth. I take something that really happened, in the terraced streets I grew up on in southeast London, and build a world around it that is bigger, louder and far more dangerous than the real thing.
Richie and the Kraft is for young readers who want to see themselves as the hero, and for grown-ups who miss the 1990s and still want to believe in leadership, loyalty and second chances.