Grant Shanks is an internationally recognised radio copywriter and producer, winner of many of the world’s most prestigious awards for advertising, including CLIO and Hollywood IBA. He is a full-time author, freelance writer, copywriter and creative marketing consultant. He writes fact under his own name and fiction under the nom de plume’s G. Andrews (science fiction) and Andrew Grant (thrillers).

Writing as Andrew Grant, he enjoyed a New Zealand best seller with his first novel HAWKS. This was followed by TYLER’S GOLD, another New Zealand-based thriller. In 2002, Grant won the Richard Webster Popular Fiction Award with MESQUITE SMOKE-DANCE, an American police psychological thriller set in Texas. This was book one of the proposed SMOKE, FIRE, ASH trilogy. DEATH IN THE KINGDOM, (2007) A bloody, hard-nosed thriller set in Thailand was published out of Singapore by Monsoon Books and is under offer as a movie project. Grant has given his permission to have TYLER'S GOLD scripted as a movie. His next novel, SINGAPORE SLING-SHOT is due for release by Monsoon books prior to Christmas 2008.

Previous titles:

Writing as Andrew Grant
• HAWKS (1998) - Shoal Bay Press
• TYLER’S GOLD (1999) - Shoal Bay Press
• MESQUITE SMOKE-DANCE (2004) - Hazard Press
• DEATH IN THE KINGDOM (2007) - Monsoon Books.
• SINGAPORE SLING-SHOT (2008) - Monsoon Books
            

Writing as Grant Shanks
• A LONG GOODNIGHT (1994) - With Warren Ruscoe: Rugby Press
  WE JUST WANT OUR DAUGHTER TO LIVE (1996) – With Jan Turner: Penguin Books New Zealand
• WHERE NO BIRDS SING (1998) – With Tahu Potiki: Shoal Bay Press
• WHEN THE WIND CALLS YOUR NAME (1999) – With Tahu Potiki: Shoal Bay Press

Writing as G. Andrews
• THE NEVERNESS FACTOR (2000) NZ: Hawk Publishing POD