My first attempt at writing was at 17, it was horrid, mainly due to my undiagnosed dyslexia. So I kept writing to tame this beast that kept sabotaging me.
Zirius magazine accepted a scifi novella in ’81.
I wrote short stories from then until doing my Oriental Medicine degree 84-87.
I've been in full time OM practice since 88. I've published academic articles in the Australian Acupuncture Journal, and the Pacific Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
More short stories and prose followed and my first novel - MotherHeart.
After completing a Masters in Epidemiology in 06, I completed that novel, now as a trilogy and a follow on series, in 2010.
During the third edit of that work, a Canadian friend asked to translate one of my short stories into French and while working on this, the characters resurrected themselves and became Singularity.
My last short story was Whose Country - in Stringybark’s: A Tic Toc Heart.
I’ve four poems in the Royal Botanic Gardens New Shoots Anthology
My wife and I maintain a full time practice, an acre of garden, a Uni student; chooks, ducks, geese, pythons and a dog. Oh and I write daily!
