The Beauty of Loose Ends (or Why the ChronoSpace series means so much to me)

The idea for ChronoSpace hit me during a 2am feeding when my daughter was just an infant. Sleep-deprived minds do strange things—sometimes wonderful ones. A flicker of a thought… and suddenly I had the bones of a story I couldn’t let go.

A year later I wrote it.

Book 1, Bootstrap’s Journey, was only meant to be a short story. But it ballooned into a novella. There was just more to tell, and I'd left enough loose ends. I based it in my hometown (for once), and while I’m not Tony Nowlan, his pushbike accident memory? That one’s mine.

There is a character in the series who’s a little bit me though. I’ll let you guess who.

Interestingly, the first story was supposed to be horror. It turned out very different—but depending on how you read it, maybe that darkness is still there under the surface.

Book 2, The Paradox of Buck Nowlan only took me a month to write... but it took three years to plan and another three to dare. At one point, I nearly abandoned the sequel entirely after a rough personal incident. But finishing it helped me reclaim part of myself. That book was a triumph of grit.

Book 3, The Titanic Connection, dragged me down a rabbit hole. I didn’t expect a novella to demand so much, but the more I researched the Titanic and conspiracies around it, the more the plot stretched its wings. I learned the value of loose ends—because they often point toward stories still to come.

And then came The Legacy Unwritten—Book 4, and my most recent. It took me somewhere new: into biblical myth, secret codes, and even a few tricks I picked up from my time as a magician. Yes, there’s a real secret behind Aaron’s staff from Exodus. You’ll see what I mean.

The ChronoSpace series has become a part of me. There’s more to come—I’ve glimpsed the end—but we’re not there yet.