About Me

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At my core I am a writer, I have always loved to write and hope I will continue to write for the rest of my days.

My love of writing goes back as far as I can remember, with my first handwritten attempt at a “book” as an 8 year old being proudly pinned on the wall at home by my mother.

Life started out as a farm kid who grew up catching fish, grooming cattle, ploughing paddocks and picking fruit.

I could drive by the time I was 12 years old and would sometimes drive one and half miles to the end of the road to collect the mail.

My father died when I was 14 and we sold the family farm a few years later.

After finishing college, I was lucky enough to be one of three people selected from more than eight hundred applicants for an ABC Rural Reporter traineeship and so began my career with words.

I spent my first three years as a journalist travelling all over Australia backfilling other rural reporters in remote outback towns and cities.

I clearly remember working a radio shift over Christmas in Wagga Wagga where the studio was so old that it would occasionally blow a tube (you might have to look that up!) while you were on air and you’d have to run around to the other side of the desk and plug in a new one.

That traineeship led me into mainstream television news reporting then public relations advisor, political advisor, project manager, specialist Army Officer, speechwriter and author. It's a career that has taken me all over Australia and a deployment overseas.

I try to put as much of that experience as I can into all my writing as a way of paying it forward.