ABOUT ME
I am a proud husband to Kim, proud Dad to four boys and proud Queenslander. I love being outdoors, which conflicts, I know, with being a writer, but you have to have somewhere to sit and fill in time while you drink your coffee.
I love the beach and any body of water really, be it camping by a creek or the magnificent Lake MacKenzie on Fraser Island, or having a body surf on the Gold or Sunshine Coast. I love mountains and will one day climb something bigger than my favourite Mt Barney. I like to rock climb, though time contrains this pastime.
I work in finance and am degree qualified to go with my own financial studies and learnings. Options and Forex trading intrigues me and I find the more I know, the less I realise I know about markets. I trade daily, and it is a slow-building hobby.
Sport is my lifeblood and Number 1 conversation starter. Cricket, football (or soccer, I am not such a purist to make a fuss), rugby league and whatever else is in season. I love the history and the statistics of great sporting achievements.
I am new to this travel thing but having driven around Italy and France in recent years, I have a travel bug that is demanding my attention.
I am seriously passionate about music, love hard rock and old school rap. I play lame guitar and legendary air drums!
My writing is a passion. I had some short stories published before my kids were born and actually wrote a novel that never saw daylight. Kids became a priority so writing hibernated within me until now. I took just on two years to write my first novel, published in 2015, am two-thirds through Novel 2 and have novels 3, 4, 5 planned out in my head. They just need to stand in line and wait their turn to see the light of this world. All in good time, I say.
I am inspired by novels that have great characters. And I love drawn out family sagas of the sort Tim Winton, Bryce Courtenay and Jeffrey Archer write. I love it when I find a character's voice and I feel like I know this person for real. They demand a bigger role in the story (or maybe a story of their own).