Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I now live in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. I live alone with my cat Horatio, my wife of 42 years having died recently, and I am semi-retired from science, and while I have largely worked in the private sector, I have still published 100 peer reviewed scientific papers, many of them single author papers. I entered Czechoslovakia from Poland just behind the Soviet-led invasion, I have been involved in the promotion of chemical-related businesses, I was a Director of two ICI joint venture companies, and I have had meetings with top politicians. I have also run my own company for almost 30 years. This experience has given me a background that is different from most authors. Accordingly, I think my novels are a little different from many, and I hope readers will find things of interest from them.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “Ranh”, which is my name for a rocky planet around the young star Epsilon Eridani. My fiction tends to have different forms of governance as part of the background for the thrillers, and the Ranhynn are a race evolved from something like velociraptors. When they discovered evolution, they also discovered there were no fossils older than 67 million years, and they decided they simply had the date of creation wrong. Now, they have learned that they came from Earth, and some want to return to the planet of creation and rid it of those pesky mammals
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No. I sit in front of a computer and write.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
In my youth, I enjoyed John Wyndham. I learned how to balance proper science in fiction without turning people off (I hope) by reading Fred Hoyle. I suppose Tolstoy’s War and Peace inspired me a lot because when I began writing again in the late 1980s, I wrote “Miranda’s Demons” which was my attempt at a War and Peace. After two decades of various alterations, I am quite pleased with it.
What are you working on now?
My latest project is ‘Bot War. The concept is that a psychopathic investment banker/trader intends to make a lot of money by short selling stock of certain companies, and to ensure the stock price falls, he has hired terrorists to launch captured robotic war machines at certain factories. The story follows the few who are trying to stop him.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have no idea. My approach is to keep trying and hope.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Back yourself -do not give up
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Back yourself.
What are you reading now?
I read a number of works by different Indie authors and write reviews to help them along. (If any reader wants to do the same for me, please do!)
What’s next for you as a writer?
I won’t think about the next project until I have at least finished the first draft of ‘Bot War. Then I may start planning another.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Probably Lord of the Rings, War and Peace, and some book on raft construction, survival, and primitive navigation.
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