..............................................................................................................................................................
..............................................................................................................................................................
Bill Brooks
After a working life in electronics, including helping in the design of early personal computers, I retired in 1983.
Left to my own devices I, for a while, became associated with extra curricular courses on Interfacing the PC with two academics at the Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT) later QUT. We ran these courses during inter-semester periods.
This led to setting up my own private courses on the Introduction of the PC to the public in general and students in particular.
However, before long the pace of innovation in computers oustripped my ability to keep up and I abandoned any attempt after about 1995.
This was also about the time Jean folded her courses in English and returned to writing fiction. She found it was helpful to have it reproduced on my computer. So began the current phase of work where I help with some of the research, type from dictation and combine with Jean to market the stuff.
When I’m not washing the kitchen floor or hanging out the washing I get a few moments to try my hand at writing as well. So far nothing has resulted apart from a finished young adult novel Yeah, it’s me, Tom which is almost ready to start on it’s way and an adult novel nearly finished, A Job for Jeb.
A short story The Mausoleum of the Living Dead received an Encouragement award from Beyond the Margin in May 2000.
..............................................................................................................................................................
