Greetings,

I launched this website as part of my new career as a freelancing gentleman scholar.

Before then, for almost 25 years, I was Curator of Manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library of the National Library of New Zealand. It was a wonderful job, and a hard decision to resign. But I wanted more time for my own writing.

Unfortunately, things have not gone quite to plan. I have been diagnosed with a serious and terminal illness. That has stymied my freelancing ambitions, and has made the next two pages, writer/researcher and archivist/curator, somewhat redundant.  I'm still working on my own writing projects, though, and you can follow my progress on the portfolio and blog pages.