I grew up surrounded by books and became an avid reader during my childhood. In my university years fantasy displaced science fiction as my favorite genre, thanks primarily to J. R. R. Tolkien. I later shared this love with my four children by reading The Lord of the Rings to them aloud—a three-month marathon we completed twice during their formative years.
Born in Australia, I've lived and worked on three continents, and spent one quarter of my working years abroad. Having worked as an IT professional throughout my career, I was first published as a technical author.
Today I live with my wife in Adelaide, South Australia, at the heart of a growing and geographically distributed extended family.
I'm currently hard at work on the final installment in my latest series The Ruptured Kingdom.
I love to hear from my readers! Contact me by email (click on the 'Contact Me' link below) or on social media.
Q&A
Q: Why do you take so long between releases?
A: Although writing is an important priority for me, life has a habit of getting in the way. Relationships matter most from my point of view, and at times writing gets put on hold as a result.
Q: Do you use AI in your writing?
A: No. My writing is 100% my own effort. Why? First, I am not willing to outsource my creativity. (So you can lay the blame entirely at my feet if you don’t enjoy my writing!) Second, it doesn’t help that a judge has found that a major AI corporation, Anthropic, illegally downloaded millions of published books (including a number of my own) from pirate sites to expand its training library. If the creative efforts of generative AI have been made possible even in part by violating copyright, why would an author choose to tacitly endorse that behavior?
Q: Do you outsource your editing process to AI?
A: No. All of my novels are edited professionally by humans—I have used a human developmental editor and a human proofreader for all of my novels, and I will continue to do so for as long as I publish.
Q: But you use em dashes. Doesn’t AI use em dashes?
A: Grrrr. Yes, I use em dashes. I’ve been doing so before AI became a thing, and I’m not going to stop just because AI borrowed the practice from me and other authors.
Q: Do you like to hear from readers?
A: Very much so! Don’t hesitate if you’d like to make contact.
