Tyson Adams

Once at boarding school I discovered my love of being hung from balconies by my feet and being tormented for having an IQ in excess of 100. It was also here that I picked up the invaluable life long habit of procrastination.

After deciding that I didn’t have enough education I gave university a go and diligently proved that you can graduate from a science degree whilst either drunk or hungover. It was during a sober moment at university that I met my future wife and editor when she inexplicably didn’t run away when I introduced myself.

Not satisfied with punishing my liver with a mere Bachelors degree I signed on for a PhD before realising all too late that a PhD wouldn’t grant me the power to write prescriptions. Now highly over-educated and in need of a job I proceeded to move out of the city in order to lower my chances of employment. But, as fate would have it, a job in the government sector hunted me down and has since trapped me in paper work.

It was only then after crawling out from under a very important piece of triplicate I was burying for the requisite ‘filing time’ that I decided to turn one of my hobbies into a career. Since Metallica didn’t need a lead guitarist, and at 1.82m I’m too tall to be an Olympic weightlifter, I decided upon writing.

My first story was written at the age of 9 after discovering Douglas Adams. Like any other preteen, my writings reflected the last thing I had seen on TV. It was in year 7 that my teacher, Mr Melhuish, would encourage my writing further by actually praising it. It only took 22 years for this praise to overcome my diligent procrastination efforts.

While guitar and weightlifting kept me entertained for years, I started to want another challenge. I played Aussie Rules Football for 2 seasons before I decided that my knee was far too healthy and needed to be torn to shreds. Three months of not being able to walk convinced me that sport was best played on the couch. So I took up woodworking. I have made furniture, clocks, am working on a guitar and might try my hand at using a bandsaw and keeping my fingers attached.

I suppose my final interest, the one that rekindled my writing ambition, is reading. I’ve always been an adventure and thriller fan, even if it was Biggles books. Of course like any male, I ignored a medical issue for years until I was physically dragged to an optomitrist. Upon discovering that I could see again, I’ve been reading more than ever before. Friend me on Goodreads to see what tickles my fancy.

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