I have to admit that when it comes to author Tim Weaver I am totally biased.

I have been obsessed with his books since I was given one of his novels to try and have been hooked since so when I saw the Bath thriller writer was taking part in Wrexham's Carnival of Words I had to go.

Tim Weaver is the author of 13 novels, including the David Raker mysteries You Were Gone, No One Home and this year’s bestselling novel The Blackbird. ​His books have twice been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, shortlisted for a National Book Award, and been nominated for both the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library and Ian Fleming Steel Dagger awards.

Tim is also busy developing an original TV series alongside one of the UK’s biggest, most respected drama teams, more of which later.

Appearing at Wrexham Library as part of Wrexham's Carnival of Words, Tim told the audience how working as a journalist, he wanted to follow his dream and become a published author.

But as he explained it took time and a lot of rejection and reworking before his first book Chasing the Dead made it to the bookshelves.

Tim said he wanted to write about something at the time that nobody else did and he spotted that in the UK market nobody really wrote about missing people.

He said he wanted to make sure his work correctly reflected the different types of grief family and friends of missing people experience and said he has spent time speaking to people as part of his research.

His protagonist in his novel series David Raker is not your archetypal macho, ex-military hero but a former journalist who has experienced grief with a great ability to talk to people and get information from them.

Tim's latest book The Blackbird is out in paperback and I honestly can't wait for his new novel The Last Goodbye which is available from June 8.

If you love a thriller then you will love Tim's books but what makes them so appealing to me is the clever way he runs two stories parallel throughout the book which then ultimately come together. The plot twists are mindblowing and intelligent.

The stories are compelling which ultimately leads to me racing through the pages, unable to put the book down as I am desperate to find out what happens next.

Tim has also written a pilot (first episode of a TV show) which has been bought by Jed Mercurio of 'Line of Duty' fame production company and is also working with another reputable TV company on bringing his David Raker series to the small screen.

Tim said: "I find writing books and TV scripts both enjoyable but they are very different. A book is your vision but with a TV script it becomes a committee decision, very different."

And his advice to budding authors?

"Finish your book, I know that sounds like a joke but seriously you need to make sure you stick with it, and then take a step away for a while and go back and revisit."