Author
A boomer who never understood the rules.
I grew up in Cambridge when the Cam was full of fish and the summers were full of sun. Leaving school with o'levels I found myself working for Lloyds Bank. Over the next 25 years I married, fathered 2 children, lived in 6 houses in 4 cities and a town and became a senior manager.
Not wishing to die having only ever worked for one employer - I left and joined a start-up customer. After 5 years they were shut down by their new US owners. I bought up the equipment and set up my own business, providing analytical services.
Eventually, I sold that company, having also part-owned a recruitment company and a business running tours to Bhutan.
After one last tragic hurrah trying to work for someone else - I retired. There I set up another business, based around ceramics. Now I experiment with the use of 3D printing and laser engravers combined with slip-casting ceramics.
In my spare time, I like to run, take holidays, and write. Charlie is my seventh novel, the second one published. The other published story is "The Boy Behind the Glass Screen" A very different novel.
My profile has pictures of some of my ceramic work, and the cover of my first novel.
My next novel - after The 3 wives of Charlie Mellon, has almost reached the end of the first draft. "The Empire" a story loosely based on the lives of Emporer Justin and his wife Theodora (circa 500 AD) is another very different novel.