Dominic Butler is an author and freelance writer from Lancashire, England. Specialising in graded readers, children’s fiction, and educational material, Dominic is foremost a lover of literature.

Growing up on a mixture of Greek mythology, Sherlock Holmes, Roald Dahl, and Point Horror, Dominic deepened his enjoyment of the written word at a traditional English grammar school, where he received great support for his interest in creative writing. 

At university, Dominic studied English literature and film, but he could never stick to the specified reading lists, preferring to consume just about anything other than the novel he was meant to be dissecting for a particular module or exam. 

After four years of forced study, Dominic fled to the Scottish Highlands with intentions of writing his first best-selling novel at the age of twenty-five. Unsurprisingly, this didn’t happen. However, he did discover a love of land and adventure that has since found its way into many of his works of fiction. 

Three years later, Dominic returned to his studies to become an English language teacher, before then driving from the Scottish Highlands to Galicia, northern Spain, where he would begin his love-affair with the continent.

Dominic currently lives in Budapest, but it was while living in Italy that he was first approached by German based publisher, PONS, to create graded readers within the crime genre. Combining his love of short story writing and his knowledge of language learning, this set Dominic on a niche career path specialising in level or age-appropriate fiction. 

To date, Dominic has written for four of Europe’s top language learning publishers, created more than twenty books, over two-hundred short stories, has moved into areas such as editing, adaptation and literary analysis, and has loved every comma, full stop, and exclamation mark that he has written along the way. 

Having taught English full-time for ten years, during the pandemic Dominic decided to make writing his main priority. He has kept on a few English classes per week though, stating that otherwise he’d be having too many conversations with the characters in his head and not enough with real people. He still sees himself as a gun for hire, and is constantly taking on new writing work in his chosen field, but most of his time is currently spent redrafting his forthcoming children’s novel, of which more can be learnt on the WORK IN PROGRESS page.