Hi. I'm easily awed by the beauty of nature, and like to walk and ride in state parks or along beach with my family. I keep up with world affairs and politics daily. My political leaning? Republishing! Born or made author? Except for avoiding tasks, I never struggled with the English language in early school and was usually first finishing a story.

I recall being well-equipped with a vocab that I hadn't even realized was most of why I got bullied. And maths? Let's not go there! At about 9 I won a creative TV show competition and the next thing I knew, my name was on TV as the winner, followed by a taxi dropping off a fairly decent prize bundle. My brain was always wired for creativity and problem-solving. At about 16, my creativity took off with the design of a zero-moving parts petroleum engine. I made lasers, non-harmful animal traps, and various home amateur electronics. So, now, I've supposedly grown up and married, with a young family in a world that was different from from the one I remember; and don't we all know this story? Then I got hooked on coding, and worked for various companies by day, while also coding a large personal project by night. Yes, you guessed right: AC is based on my own real-life project to make something generally considered impossible. Do I still believe AC is possible? The answer is in the second installment of my Kevin@11 Trilogy: AC Artificial Consciousness.

My biggest love in life is my children, and our family. I'm constantly thinking about their future, and I try to plan clever for their education. I figure I've got two choices: a) I can either lean on them to go to University, and pressure them into study. b) or, I can engage them now to excite them about science, maths and learning. For all the woes of the internet, there's been a better time for self-education, or of one's children. You simply find a channel that suits your kids, and let that free mentor enhance your children in maths, science or whatever. As an adult, I started writing stories just for pleasure and to create, and I got bitten. After a few years I knew that I was going to be an author for the rest of my life because I constantly felt the urge to write. I thought my first commercial book was going to be easy. DOH! Not today sonny! I hate it when reality rudely gets in the way of my dream, ESPECIALLY when my dream is right, and reality is wrong! Yep, I found out that writing a good book wasn't just hard work, but it also had a lot of curves to learn, and a whole knew industry to get my head around.