Let me tell you a story...

First let me just say I don’t really like to describe myself as an author. It sounds too grand, too learned for me.

I’m really just a simple story teller.

The reason I write is that I love making up a good story. But for me, I have to mix fact and fiction so even I sometimes get confused which

bits are real and which I have just made up on the spur of the moment.

Yes, that’s how I write,

how I would tell you a story, if you were sitting in front of me.

I would just make it up as I go

along.

I get asked, surely you plan your books, work out the skeleton of a plot and then fill it in,

making sure that the hero or heroine is confronted with some serious challenges along the way, which they mysteriously manage to deal with? Hmm...that’s the theory I’ve been told, in writing a good novel.

Perhaps the rebel in me can never follow a rigid structure like this. I want my characters, who seem very real to

me, to evolve naturally as the story progresses. They’re not some reaction of a clever piece of AI, that can only progress in a certain way.

No, they’re very human, and sure, they will have their good days and bad days.

But I refuse to construct a plot that follows the

same old formula of just about every best selling fiction book you’ll see on the shelves..

That’s

far too glib, too trite, unlike what really happens in real life.

So my style ignores that typical; book structure, defying moments for the protagonists, rising

tensions, the normal tropes you would expect. Nowadays you will find these littered with

cliches, that may reflect the virtue signaling of much that is written today. Ian Fleming would

never be able to get away with his James Bond character, or at least he would struggle to find a

publisher.

If you take the risk of reading my books, expect the unexpected, prepare to be a little bit

offended, now and again, especially if you are from the politically correct generations that came

after us ‘boomers’. And you must be prepared to forgive me for not being a particularly talented

wordsmith and certainly I lay down no claim to any great intellectual ability.

But I abhor ‘cancel

culture’ and will resist it to my dying day, as I’m sure it would equally offended that much greater

writer than I will ever be, George Orwell.

Prepared to give Eternal Blue a try ? Then sit back and let me tell you a good yarn. It will

probably be a story that will describe how others try to battle on our behalf with a hostile and

fast changing world. And if I sometimes manage to bring a smile to our face, then it's all been

worthwhile. So please enjoy as that’s all I care about. Not forgetting of course, that

THERE IS

NO PLANET B, as Jesscia Crichton, JC, would always remind us.

I wish I was clever enough to

have invented those magic words...someone else got their first.