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About

I have always wanted to write novels since I was a boy and at the same time as a mark of respect to my father who survived the second world war keep his memory alive. My father was born in Ukraine worked for the Germans and then the Americans. His job was transporting Gi's and also providing security on trains in Germany just after the war. Dad arrived in England then settled in Scotland as a displaced person. He met my mother at the camp at Kingcleugh outside Mauchline. I love fiction of all genres and especially fantasy horror and sci-fi. I wanted to write something special something that would entertain and transport readers away whenever they needed to dropping them into a place a world apart and far away from where they were... GOD'S CHAIN was the way to do it. I first began writing in 2004! GOD'S CHAIN is NOT a religious novel. It is a series of fantasy books GENESIS the first self-published novel paperback ISBN 9781527202528 & hardback 9781916258921. I have also written DEVILS'S TEMPLE and Stones of Symmetry. I was born in the village of Mauchline and settled in Irvine in the early 1980s. Mauchline was once a busy mining village is situated on the West Coast of Scotland Ayrshire about thirty miles from Glasgow. I decided in 2004 after surviving Cancer to invent an epic fantasy and try and aspire to some of the great writers like Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' or Stephen Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant' my own work written with a distinctive Scottish flavour. So many fantasies and horrors begin in remote places in other parts of the world and I believed it would be unusual to start a story right here in Mauchline. Where better in the heart of Covenanting country. So I created GOD'S CHAIN! Over the years I found writing very therapeutic in many ways scribbling in notepads in different places or out jogging and being inspired by locations and situations. Places like Irvine beach Eglington Park or George Square. Typing on my laptop while enduring many years and winter's with winds blowing through Buchannan bus station before going into work or during my lunch hours scribbling while sitting uncomfortably shifting multiple positions on the hard stone of the Cenotaph at George Square and forgetting work. I wouldn't have it any other way! God's Chain indeed has kept me inspired and entertained today as it did when I first started. I hoped to create something that would take on a life of its own and last forever. Retiring early in summer 2018 I still dream of that Publisher that would take a chance and help me to create a best seller and one day produce that epic blockbuster I know it can be.