What's the story behind your latest book?
The local folklore of secret complexes inside Castle Hill, which sits on the edge of the city centre, and other infrastructure supposedly elsewhere around the Townsville area, has always fascinated me. These places have been searched for for years without success.
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
I'm often in the shed doing woodwork, usually something useful like a small table to sit by the side of an armchair. My biggest project has been a Gothic inspired bookcase built in three pieces; shelves, stand, reading slope. I also enjoy bookbinding and I have one full on effort in a Medieval vein with sewn signatures, and sewn in leather cords that are attached to the wooden covers which, as I didn't have a couple of oaken boards, I used plywood instead. I'm still sewing covers for it that will be pasted on.
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