As mentioned in The Greenock Blitz, then and now, I went to work for the Liverpool Victoria Insurance, as an Agent for their Greenock district, back in December 1992. Before long, I discovered that many of my members were survivors of the Greenock Blitz (May 6th& 7th 1941). I found their testimonies fascinating and started to record them in a notebook, never imagining that I would one day develop the material into a short story far less a great saga novel. It had been nearly 10 years since I first thought of the plot for The Treasures of Drumory, which by then, had been languishing in a drawer unfinished. I felt guilty that I was neglecting it. However, the truth was, my heart just wasn't in it anymore and I resigned myself to finishing it in my retirement. I have always been fascinated by the history of World War II, but when I discovered how big a part the Clyde's shipbuilding industry had played in it, I felt compelled to study it thoroughly at the James Watt library. As fate would have it, I got married to a Greenockian girl and moved to Greenock in 1995. This made it convenient for me to spend most Saturday mornings and a large part of my annual holidays studying at the library. I'll never forget the day it dawned on me that the Greenock Blitz had not only outgrown its status as a short story or even your average sized novel, but another promising Saga. I reveled in the idea that I was going to create another rich, wonderful world that I alone would devise and control. That is what is so amazing about being a storyteller. You can escape your life or alleviate frustration in an incredible fashion without becoming deluded or insane, lol. You can overcome any adversity, win any trophy or lover's heart; you can suffer and mourn when the mood-debt is due, you can fight and drag yourself off the floor a hundred times and still triumph. You can rule. Back to The Fidelity Saga, as it came to be titled. I was determined not to let it languish away in a drawer if I suffered bouts of writer's block. But by 1996, I got married and my commitment to it drained me of nearly all my spare time. In late 1998, Davie (my best mate) put me up for 6 months whilst our new family home was being built. In that time, I managed to finish Volume I of The Fidelity Saga, but by August 2000, my daughter Niamh was born and it began to look like it might be several years before I would find quality time to write again. Just then, something extraordinary happened. Firstly, in a matter of 48 hours, I conceived and completed the romantic comedy Valentino's Redress. Secondly, I realised there was a non-fiction title lurking in all the research that I had accumulated over the years on the Greenock Blitz. In rapid time, I put together The Greenock Blitz, then and now, which to this day remains my best seller. Ha ha, go figure. As for the Fidelity Saga, which I love dearly, it's still in the drawer. In 2002, my son Nathan came into the world and that was that. No regrets. The years that followed were the best of my life. There is one consolation that has come my way however. It is now 2026, and I have just launched a website devoted to both my literary work and Artwork. And, by the end of this same year, I'm going to devote my spare time to completing The Fidelity Saga. It's time.