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Bio

Archetypal sort-of-middle-aged guy with a day job in IT.

My home as a reader is Science Fiction and Fantasy, in print: I don't do well with audiovisual media and I rarely watch even one movie a year. I would describe my occasional forays outside the genre as 'eclectic': so feel free to make recommendations!

My home as a writer is anywhere I set a keyboard: and I have a lot of work to do, in the most basic skills of sentence construction, dialogue and plot, before I am anywhere close to the proficiency of any published author.

And I know it: feel free to make any criticism or suggestion!

 

What, you want more 'About Me' blurb?

Most people call me Nile.

I'm a bit geeky: I write Limericks, perpetrate puns obsessively, practice Aikido, and photograph wild bees.

What else? Suburbanite, happily-married to a beautiful, beautiful Geek: we cycle, we garden, we campaign, we cook, we create (but different crafts!), we write (but we write different things!), we read (do I need to say this bit again?) and we do all kinds of things that will make no sense whatsoever to anyone who isn't us.

And there's an else, else:

We have a sense of difference between ourselves and more typical people that you might meet every day in the workplace; we have this in common with a great many people, including a handful who made the effort - and it is an effort, some things are difficult for me - to become friends.

And we all mask our difference in ways that might be more subtle than you realise.

A social tip: try pretending not to notice, when you encounter a particularly difficult difference, and think of a way to keep the conversation flowing. Deciding not-to-see a thing is often a very kind thing to do, because someone you weren't thinking about might find it difficult and distressing when people start pointing it out.

I'm not going to be explicit about it.