In 1996 I co-founded the
Blackwood Writers Group, a collection of dedicated writers,
most of whom are now successful in their own write and instrumental in
my early success.
One BWG member, with a little help from his friends
went into publishing. I co-edited a couple of issues, and designed a few
covers.
Then an Honorable mention for my first submission to L. Ron Hubbard's Writer's of the Future Contest went to my head and I decided it was time to write that novel.
The novel became a trilogy (The Restoration Legends) that over a couple of decades took over the writing. Now the first draft of the whole trilogy is finished and I have self published vol 1, and I'm editing/rewriting vol 2.
In between I managed to have some flash fiction (about 500 word each) published with AntipodeanSF and a few short stories anthologised in australian small press.
Post trilogy I went back to writing and submitting short stories to L. Ron Hubbard's Writer's of the Future Contest . Again my first submission in the new millenium, 20 years to the quarter after my first submision in the last, earned an Honourable Mention. I can now add few more HM's and a Semi-Finalist certificate to my awards
I've now published thirteen of my Writer's of the Future Contest award winning stories in the collection Colony Worlds.
