A Character
Mike Simmiss was “born” in 2011 as a character in my sixth novel "Green Expectations" https://createspace.com/4153773.
He is 27 years old (at “birth”) and is the founding president of the Save Our Forests Association (SOFA) – a fictitious band of volunteer conservationists fighting, in the 1990s, for the protection of indigenous forest in New Zealand. He comes from Timaru and works as a science lecturer at a polytechnic in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington.
He is in a relationship with a SOFA member and avid conservationist, Vanessa Denton, based not so much on romance – she keeps emotionally distant – as on intellect and shared ideals.
The relationship becomes platonic after Mike meets and falls in love with 21 year-old, Justine Mathews. The Mathews family has, for generations, owned an untouched area of indigenous forest which comes under threat of logging for the first time.
Mike is devastated when Vanessa commits suicide in a last ditch protest against the threat to Mathews Bush.
In “Green Machinations” (a sequel shortly to be published) Mike is devastated by her death and revives a flagging campaign to prevent logging in Mathews Bush. SOFA takes a final stand.
New Zealand author, Tina Shaw, has called it: “An excellent story and easy read” and ranks it as “New Zealand writing in the best sense of the term”.
I’m currently awaiting the arrival of the book proof from CreateSpace in the USA. Publication is several weeks or more away.
For information about my books please go to my website www.thomaswdevine.com.
He is 27 years old (at “birth”) and is the founding president of the Save Our Forests Association (SOFA) – a fictitious band of volunteer conservationists fighting, in the 1990s, for the protection of indigenous forest in New Zealand. He comes from Timaru and works as a science lecturer at a polytechnic in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington.
He is in a relationship with a SOFA member and avid conservationist, Vanessa Denton, based not so much on romance – she keeps emotionally distant – as on intellect and shared ideals.
The relationship becomes platonic after Mike meets and falls in love with 21 year-old, Justine Mathews. The Mathews family has, for generations, owned an untouched area of indigenous forest which comes under threat of logging for the first time.
Mike is devastated when Vanessa commits suicide in a last ditch protest against the threat to Mathews Bush.
In “Green Machinations” (a sequel shortly to be published) Mike is devastated by her death and revives a flagging campaign to prevent logging in Mathews Bush. SOFA takes a final stand.
New Zealand author, Tina Shaw, has called it: “An excellent story and easy read” and ranks it as “New Zealand writing in the best sense of the term”.
I’m currently awaiting the arrival of the book proof from CreateSpace in the USA. Publication is several weeks or more away.
For information about my books please go to my website www.thomaswdevine.com.
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