English 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.