I write hopeful science fiction that flips physics on its head. Character-based stories with heart and a sense of joy and awe.
I'd been wanting to write most of my adult life. I wasn't sure how to go about it, and whether I could even write something well enough someone would want to read it. I finally took a correspondence course in the ‘90s. At the end of that, they recommended I submit a short story to a Canada-wide contest. I was one of 66 entries out of 800 to make it to the second round of the Writing for Children's Competition. Their letter (which I still have) was very encouraging. That contest was in '99. The story later became chapter 1 of Falling Up, revised and expanded. This shows that by the time I wrote it, I'd been thinking about the story for more than 30 years. I was thinking about the story, wanting to write, even dreaming about it. Some of those dreams became scenes in the book. I call writing my dream job.
It took a heart attack and bypass surgery for me to finally say it's now or never. I wrote Falling Up the year I turned 70. I'd been saying that I planned on being a late bloomer—it's the only chance I've got! Well, I guess I fulfilled that prediction.
Because I like to make people laugh, you will oftentimes find humour interjected in my stories. When I’m not writing, I love to throw frisbee with friends.
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*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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