I’m an Australian journalist who grew up in tropical north Queensland. It’s cyclone-territory, pretty laid-back and if you’re wearing thongs you’re overdressed.
In comparison, I now call the Darling Downs home. It’s high up and cold, which is tricky for a north Queenslander who thinks the next ice age is upon us when it drops below 30 degrees Celsius.
I’m also a fencer, which is useful for all those sword fights in epic fantasy. Can you have two many sword fights? Never. The 19th Bladesman was my first published novel, though there are some practice ones in the computer version of a drawer.
