Writing a series...

Even after writing five novels and a memoir, tackling the story that is now Original Earth was very intimidating. After having spent a lifetime loving the Tarzan character and re-reading again and again the whole series created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this was the story I feel I was born to write. So, writing those first few lines took many years to build up the courage of embarking upon the journey. But, of course, I need not have worried, because in Anu, I'd found a character who could carry me, the author.

Anu has a gift: her personal vibration is in perfect harmony with the natural world.

That has always been my aspiration, so it was very easy for Anu to quickly become a vivid real individual in my imagination. I would even go as far as to say, Anu is the real author and I've just been along for the ride.

This connection with my characters isn't new. All my main protagonists have come to life and as the author I have handed over the reins, so to speak, but I've never experienced a character so immediately becoming their own entity.

There's now three novels packed with Anu's adventures and I'm about to begin writing the fourth. The last few months have been about ironing out the manuscripts prior to publication. I've also prepared and published two other books. One a full length thriller titled The Need To Know Principle and another a personal account of my experiences during the Falklands war, which I've titled The Falklands Engagement, a story that has finished up as a novella - I set my real-life experiences against a love story in order to attract a wider readership - but I can't wait to get back to Anu's adventures. In book four, our heroine is heading back to Original Earth... What does the world look like in a hundred and thirty-five years time....?