About Me
Interesting Facts
I like mountain biking…I love surfing but have a fear of water…
I tell my wife that handsome men don’t need hair…
A blind boy in India laughed at me and said I have a big nose…
I drive my family ‘nuts’ because I daydream a lot and don’t listen so well…
I have a degree, two Masters degrees and a PhD- How on earth did that happen?
I really wish we could be kinder to other people and the environment!
High Points Of My Life
Being born in Newcastle, Australia!Winning a 100m sprint in primary school.
Living on an Airforce Base during my high school years.
Volunteering with refugees in Africa when I was twenty-one.
Falling in love, getting married & having three great kids.
Travelling for three months in India with my family.
Running a boy’s mentoring program.
Learning how to surf.
Writing new books.
Low Points Of My Life
Repeating grade one. Really! I did!Being told I was a day-dreamer in primary school.
Arguing with my dad way too much when I was growing up.
Being told by a high school math teacher that I’d never amount to much.
Running away to Papua New Guinea after I proposed to my wife.
Breaking my shoulder on a canyoning trip.
Lately
I’m definitely a bit of an ‘absent-minded professor’ and currently lecture at Avondale College of Higher Education near Lake Macquarie, Australia. At the moment I’m writing another book for teenagers, and a love story for my wife and daughter.Favourite Writing Quote
“Being a good writer is 5% talent, 45% hard work and 50% not being distracted by the Internet.” (Anonymous)“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” -Stephen King
“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” -Peter Handke