After a ten-year career as a young actor (which one day he plans to write a book about), Gary moved into other aspects of the industry, working as a runner/assistant director/AFM, as well as spending a period of time in press and publicity and brand management for the BBC. As a freelance writer he has written for a number of national magazines and periodicals such as Radio Times, Mojo and Time Out. For Marvel UK he served as an Editor and then Group Editor in both magazine and comic book departments, before moving on to work for gaming magazines and TV Soap magazines.