Lives and works in central London, where he runs Soho film company The Creative Partnership, a unique organisation that creates movie marketing for most major and independent film companies in the UK.

Fowler's first novel, Roofworld, was a national bestseller; it concernes rival gangs who live on the rooftops of London, fighting arcane battles while the city sleeps. The book is being reissued by Little, Brown; and Granada Films are developing a film version, written by Jonathan Hales, writer of the new Star Wars film.