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born, New Zealand raised and Australia domiciled is the short answer to where I
come from. Travel does that, you skip the bits in between in case people think
you’re going to bring out the photographs.
New Zealand
was where I grew up and finished my education. Then it was into engineering and
getting on with things. It was also where I first began to read sci-fi.
Years and
much traveling later, I’m in Australia working as a senior construction
estimator when I decided that I was going to write a sci-fi novel. So I designed
my universe along with appropriate technology and characters and diligently
scribbled everything down over many, many, many late nights. Then I carefully
put my story away for a while until I’d finished rebuilding the house. Then
along came the kids. And a different house…
… twenty
years later I finally got down to serious writing. Three hundred thousand words;
first part of a trilogy; great story; great technology. Sure fire winner, right?
( those out there sniggering… this was my first book and I knew nothing ) Three
re-writes and many bruises later I realized I needed something different. The
ego had gone and I could look at things objectively.
From my
now-uncluttered mind up popped the concept of the Mirror Worlds and I went from
there. It was fun to write. I wanted to make magic believable, as if it could
really be explained. I hope I’ve succeeded.
We’ll see.
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