“I live as naturally as possible in today’s world, sharing several forest acres in sub-tropical Queensland, with kangaroos, bandicoots, snakes, birds, frogs, toads, lizards, insects, ticks, and my partner..

My first twenty-four years are recalled in a lighthearted memoir, “Dancing Bare”, in which I confess my misbehaviour in nineteen sixties London, Paris, Europe and North Africa.

I like to read and write stories in which the ‘hero’ shares some of my ideas, values, hopes and fears, and copes bravely with dangers without compromising his principles. I also prefer stories that are intelligent, reasonably fast-paced, with sufficient but minimal description that doesn’t interrupt the unfolding plot, which is about more than just the action. A bit of philosophising and the occasional polemic always please me.

A while ago I realised that despite law changes in most Western countries that make same-sex-orientation legal, little has changed in the crime/adventure genre. Most fictional ‘heroes’ are heterosexuals.

Failing to find a thriller/adventure/crime story with an interesting, decent, believable hero who refuses to be labelled because he sees himself as a normal male who happens to have been born same-sex-oriented, I decided to fill the gaping hole and write such a tale myself.

My ‘heroes’ are believable, not ‘supermen’, just slightly larger than life. Any sexual activity is essential to the plot, because graphic sex adds nothing to a good story an, to me at least, detracts. Most of the so-called ‘gay’ novels I’ve tried to read are in reality merely excuses for empty erotica.

My ‘heroes’ live in the real world of avarice, deceit and double standards, but learn to value what is truly valuable – a sustainable planet with clean air, water and soil, and fulfilling, mutually beneficial relationships.