I think from the moment I could read stories I began to write my own. I have always been a loner and would disappear into the woods or a hiding place and scribble down stories. Even when I was in the army, my colleagues would go out on the town and I'd stay in barracks jotting down stories.

Original Earth is an unlimited science fiction series about a girl growing up in the jungle of an alien planet. Anu is eight when the spaceship crash lands. Her mother dies due to the crash and her father goes in search of help. Anu is left alone with her five-year-old brother. The siblings are raised by a species of ape called the mantou. Anu befriends many other animals, including dolphins in the sea. When she's fifteen, she meets a alien woman called Sonri. Then she is reconnected with her father who had been held prisoner in a human community. Sonri's people, the phen, consider the planet as a sanctuary for animals humans have made extinct on their own planet, so the story builds to a confrontation. Book two is about Sonri sharing technology with Anu and their growing relationship and the human community struggle to make sense of their new environment. Book three is about Anu and Sonri experiencing other planets and the human community fracturing as they begin to pull in different directions. In book four, Anu and Sonri return to Original Earth and there will be a book five, six, seven and eight etcetera.