Jack read his first science fiction book at the age of nine and has been hooked ever since. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Heinlein were his heroes and, at the age of ten, he decided to emulate them and become a writer of science fiction. It may have taken him forty years longer than he anticipated, but he has made a good start with his Edge of Destiny trilogy. In between times he worked as a costermonger on York market, a fish salter on Grimsby docks and a tobacconist—where he first became addicted to pipe weed—and all that before attending York University to become one of its first computer science graduates.
After university he went on to a long career in the computer industry, eventually setting up his own software company and running it for ten years. He specialised in software for the newly emerging supermarket chains and came up with a concept that would allow people to do their weekly shop from home over the phone. He was all set to patent his ‘Armchair Shopping’ concept, but the supermarkets didn’t believe the idea would ever catch on and he canned the project – just before the Internet took off. Jack often checks the rise in the number of on-line transactions and dreams of the royalties that could so easily have been his.
Eventually, Jack sold his business and became a teacher of computer science, or ICT as it is now called. He taught in the Lake district for a few years before moving to the embassy school in Cairo. He often says he would write a book about his experiences in Egypt, but nobody would believe him. After Egypt, Jack went on to teach in Hong Kong and he says it was like moving from purgatory to paradise.
Five years later, complications with his diabetes forced him to retire but this finally gave him time to follow his childhood dream and become a writer and Anvil of Change is his first book and part one of the Edge of Destiny trilogy.

Website: http://www.jack-dash.co.uk/

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