I was born in 1951 in a town called New Amsterdam, in a country called British Guiana, which is now called Guyana, on the Caribbean coast of South America. My father was born in Santiago, Chile, and my mother in British Guiana, but both of them were of Scottish ancestry. Confused? So was I for many years, as a pale, freckly little white boy with a strong West Indian accent. I was educated in Bromley, just south of London, England (so I now have a cockney accent) and was lucky enough to join the fledgling information technology industry in 1969, straight from high school. In 1986 my wife and I along with our two sons emigrated to Perth, Western Australia which is now our home (so the cockney accent is now tinged with an Aussie accent!).
For as long as I can remember I've enjoyed writing and I came up with numerous short stories over the years on my trusty old typewriter. But in the late-1980s I obtained my first home computer, an Apple IIe, and suddenly writing was so much easier. One day I sat down and started what I thought was going to be another short story about a young lady named Suzi, but the words just kept coming and eventually I had written my first novel - "Suzi". There were lots more words in my head so I just continued letting them flow and out came "Mindkey", which is the continuation of the Suzi story. Suzi also appears in a third novel, "Hocha", and now that I've retired, a fourth and fifth have been started as well.
My other great love is astronomy and, as editor of the newsletter for my local group, the Astronomical Society of Western Australia (ASWA), I have written numerous articles on the theories, known facts and personalities relating to that subject. I'm also the Education Officer with ASWA and love to teach about the universe and its infinite components.