As a professional international artist (www.maigriffin.com), Mai has travelled the world painting portraits of Royalty, Heads of State and other prominent figures, over eighty of her paintings hang in Palaces, Government Offices, Embassies and Stately Homes.

The Montgo, near Javea, Spain has been her home for the past twenty years and both the mountain and the town have featured in many of her landscapes and street scenes, she has also sponsored a website for artists to show their work online www.telier.co.uk

Throughout her painting career, Mai has never stopped writing whether her own work or ghosting and editing for others, so she was delighted to discover that her latest book has been chosen to launch U P Publications Ltd's new Fiction List, in time for Christmas 2007

Deadly Shades of Grey is the first of the Grey series and will be followed, closely, by A Poisonous Shade of Grey and Grey Masque of Death. Both are due to be released via U P Publications Ltd before Summer 2008

Although busy with her painting commissions and art exhibitions, Mai is hoping to release the fourth of the Grey series before Christmas 2008