The Normal Guy

One of the ways that I like to create humour in my stories is through the perspective of the ‘normal guy’. Obviously, the normal guy doesn’t actually have to be male or even all that normal. What matters is that they are more normal, at least at first glance, than everyone else around them.

Jake from The Galactic Peace Series is a good example of this. He grew up on what was basically a farming world. His childhood was fairly normal and so was much of his young adulthood prior to being expell...