I write science fiction that flips physics on its head.
I write character-based stories with heart and a sense of joy and awe. Because I like to make people laugh, you will oftentimes find humour interjected in my stories.
I was one of 66 entries out of 800 to make it to the second round of a Canada-wide Writing for Children's Competition.The short story I submitted is the core of chapter 1 in my debut novel Falling Up. The letter from competition had some encouraging comments. One was that my story was a "worthy addition to the post-holocaust genre". Another was that "This is an intriguing piece by a skilful writer and I think that this could easily be expanded into a novel."
I've wanted to write stories all my adult life. I had a couple of story ideas that stayed with me over the years, and I thought about them so much that I would dream about them. I sometimes dreamed scenes. Some of them are in the novels. I call writing my dream job.
It took a heart attack and subsequent 6-bypass surgery for me to finally say it's now or never. I wrote the first draft of Falling Up the year I turned 70.
When I'm not writing, I love to defy gravity at least temporarily by throwing frisbee with friends.
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I'll be at FictionFest this year. It's a free Canadian event for authors and readers. Want to browse Canadian books? Want to join discussions with authors? This is the place where it's happening, June 21 to July 24.
Physics which include gravity, inertia, Newton's third law of motion, the principles of thermodynamics, the physics of causality, and Einstein's theory of relativity.
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