About Me

$The Biography By education I am a Physicist (BAppSci, Physics, QIT) and an Information Scientist (MsInfSc, UNSW) and I started a PhD in Humanities Computing which has long gone by the wayside. In previous professional lives I have been a lab technician using an automated x-ray diffraction lab at the ANU, a Macintosh computer consultant working in a university college (ADFA, UNSW), a Systems Engineer at UC and a Research Developer for text-based tools for working with scholarly editions of literature. Hopefully I will not have to resort back to these endeavours because I always wanted to be ... a LUMBERJACK. Well may be not. Perhaps a writer. At least my own boss. So now I try to keep bread on the table by playing the stock market; selling second-hand books, comics and magic cards online and being a continuity editor for speculative fiction. Interested in how I came to do professional continuity editing. It's all due to Russell Kirkpatrick, a New Zealand fantasy author published by HarperCollins, Australia. He made a comment on the Voyager, Purple Zone about how it was good for readers who found mistakes in books to report them to the authors so that they could be corrected in future editions. Having just started "Across the Face of the World", the first book in this first trilogy, I took him at his word and started up email correspondence. Three books and 32,000 words of email correspondence later he asked me whether I would do it for him professionally and I have been extensively involved in continuity editing his second trilogy. It something I apparently have a talent for. Some people rudely call me a pedant, but what do they know? As of 2008 I have become the Resident Editor on the ‘A Writer Goes On A Journey’ Australian speculative fiction community website where I do regular public professional level critiques of submitted stories and write a weekly column called ‘Reality Bit(e)s’ about things I think speculative fiction writers should know about. With regard to my writing efforts I am embarked on the writing of a 3/4 maybe 5 part fantasy story based on some role playing I did back when I lived on campus at ANU. Never being one to use canned modules the world that I designed and ran back then was a low power, low entropy world well suited for writing believable stories about. I also applied my Physics background into designing the cosmology and laws of magic and so I hope will have an appeal to readers of both fantasy and science fiction. The Conflux 2008 Speculative Fiction Writers Convention was held in Canberra on 3-6 October, 2008. I was the treasurer for this event and by all accounts the convention was well received by the attendees despite some problems we had with the venue. During the latter half of 2008 I wrote a short story for the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (CSFG) "Masques" anthology which is currently long-listed for inclusion in the anthology. I also used the NaNoWriMo month of November to expend this into a novella sized piece of fiction which I plan to make into a novel and start submitting for publication. You can see my NaNoWriMo Winner graphic in the left-hand margin. Well that's enough of me for now. If you are interested in finding more about these things click on the appropriate links in the navigation list to the the left.$ shapeimage_2_link_0

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Reality Bit(e)s

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Bibliography of G.L. Berrie

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