ABOUT ME

I was born in Brisbane in the safe, suburban seventies. I grew up in the leafy western suburbs, where I'd do a lot of staring out the window daydreaming about things. 

I always wanted to be a writer.

For a long time as an early teenager, I wondered if I was an alien. My fantasies often revolved around the mothership reappearing  to whisk me off to a lifetime of galactic high adventure.

I did less geeky stuff too. I was a yuppie for a while, and then a goth, and then a yuppie again, and then some weird pastel-and-stonewash wearing fashion trainwreck. Hey, it was the eighties.  Eventually I stopped worrying quite so much about what other people thought.

I wasn't a nerd, or a jock, or any such thing at school. If anything, I was spectacularly unspectacular.

As an adult, I woke up a bit and really started getting excited about life. I have worked mostly in consulting and training. I started writing again about five years ago, and was lucky enough to get some small bits of recognition. That gave me the encouragement to keep going. I worked on a few films, and saw my work performed on stage. I then moved on to writing books, which was always my dream.

I have a quiet spiritual side.

I love travel. I like to get away once a year and do the kinds of things I don't get to do at home. I've been thrown in jail in Outer Mongolia, have stayed with Tamil Tigers and communist insurgents, and chewed the fat with head hunters, refugees, shamans and monks. I once had a pistol put to my head in a Manilla methamphetamine lab.

Nowadays, I have an awful lot of fun.