Nick Broadhurst
The Sequetus Series started being written in 1987, the year the story kicks off. I started the first books using pen and paper and compiled many journals. Soon, however, I bought a new Amstrad computer, and was away. By book ten I was living in Tokyo and I was still at it, writing my story. By the twenty-third book, the Sequetus Series was complete, and it is 2014.
This series of books is an epic piece of literature. I had never written a book before. I am an architect, and a construction project manager. But I really was interested in where this world was going, and I was going to also write about it - even if it was in fiction. I then did English and writing courses.
And after the Sequetus Series, the Captain Kuro From Mars Series begins. It runs for twelve books. It incidentally follows on from the Sequetus Series. Telling the story does not stop.
I lived and worked in over a dozen countries around the world, with Australia, Japan, the USA and now Nepal, being the four longest. I lived a life of adventure, and included is a lot of time in Asia, volunteering on disaster sites, and some during civil war. I have lived in a different world to what many of my readers see. The world I was born into did not have mobile phones, computers, or even satellites. I still remember when I looked up and saw the spaceship, as a star in the sky, as it moved from the left to the far right of the night sky. The early 1960s were wild adventure years. I sigh now as we are monitored and tracked.
I recall almost fifty years ago, walking through the Australian bush, for two days, and the track I was walking across was littered with a dozen poisonous black-snakes, basking in the early morning winter sun. One bite would be fatal. I was seventeen. I was with another, but two days away from any road. We just carefully talked calmly to the snakes as we stepped over and through them. I still recall the images of them as they looked up to me. I also recall vividly trecking through the remote highlands of New Guinea, flying off cliffs in planes, and a lot more.
There have been many different responses to people having read my books. They vary, but many readers claim they benefited. So if you want to read them, good for you. There is a lot in them. It is hoped you enjoy them as much as I did writing them.
What do your fans mean to you?
Fans, or readers, are important for they are the ones whom you are trying to communicate to in writing a book. What is the purpose in writing? It is to communicate. Without fans or readers, there is little point in writing. Writing a good for yourself does not have a lot of purpose or future. If someone lists my books or me as a favourite author, it means a lot. I do not write to make money, as I am a building contractor and architect. I write for the passion of writing and communicating ideas. Plus I hope my ideas will help someone.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Usually it is my contract to build a building, or help those around me who I have decided to help. But also perhaps it is more than that. Perhaps there is an underlying purpose to life and when you are on, and delivering, that purpose it makes life very much worth living. It is not just about building and writing. I also spent a lot of time in Asia doing volunteer work. One of those regions was in war and I did a lot to end that war. I felt very alive.
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Sequetus (The full set of books)
by Nick Broadhurst
There are four miniseries, comprising 23 books that make up the Sequetus Series. The series starts in 1989, when it first began to be written. The story spans a millennia, and the twenty-three books took 15 years to write. It starts with an intelligence officer from out there, in a distant part of the galaxy, and he is sent to Sequetus 3 (Earth), to find out what is going on. Nothing makes sense here from their point of view out there. Then he has to fix it. Earth is a mess, but someone made it that way, and they had a reason. If he can find out, perhaps he can right it. Perhaps. The first miniseries was all that was originally intended to be written, but the writer became just as engrossed in finding out what is happening on Earth as his characters, so the story continued and continued....
The Earth Syndrome
by Nick Broadhurst
This is the fourth miniseries of Sequetus Series. The hero in the book finds he and his freinds, again sent to Earth to unravel the mysteries of out there. All roads always seem to point to Earthy, and then in another galaxy. They are getting closer now.
Juggernaut
by Nick Broadhurst
This is the third miniseries in the Sequetus Series. Now, finally, they find the race of beings behind the downfall of their galactic Federation. Again, Earth is in the background. Always Earth. What is going on?
Templar
by Nick Broadhurst
The second miniseries in the Sequetus Series. This is over a thousand years since intervention. The intelligence officer of a thousand years ago, finds himself again on earth, but in a new Earth body. He is young. He has to get off the planet. He is being hunted and those out there know he is on the planet somewhere. The planet has been exaustively depopulated, but he has not been found, yet.
New Earth
by Nick Broadhurst
This is the first of the Sequetus Series miniseries. It is set on Earth. An intelligence officer is sent to investigate what is going on here. It makes no sense to out there. That is the first book. He is being watched, and the planet is well infiltrated.
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