I came to writing the long way around.

It started with a family that lived for books and reading, and still pretty much does, but between there and here I've had a few diversions. It took me a while - about thirty years - to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up.
Slow learner, I guess.

I spent a few years doing fun stuff; truck driver - including furniture moving, an experience I didn't need and am still paying for, steel worker, musician. I even cut sugar cane for a little while (which is worse than furniture moving, so it was a very little while.)

I spent twenty years in the Royal Australian Air Force, which, now I recall, also included a good deal of fun stuff.

After that, I went into the world of private enterprise; manufacturing to be precise. Read: more money but practically no fun stuff at all.

In 1994, I worked in Hong Kong for a bit and then moved to Shanghai, China to start a joint venture making electrical transformers.

1996, back in Australia, I joined a company making electric motors, and in 2000, I moved to Thailand, eventually taking over the company's operations there. Bangkok is way cool, by the way.

In 2004, I returned to Australia to write full time. Initially I sold short fiction, mainly romantic stories to magazines like Woman's Day. I've completed five novels including the two presented here. Don't ask about the other three; let's just say that writing requires an apprencticeship just like any other profession. (If you're a writer yourself, you probably know what I mean).

I'm currently working on a mystery thriller, To Die For. It's a bit more light hearted than Absence of Doubt and should be out in 2010.