After a lifetime running endlessly on the IT corporate hampster wheel I decided to get off and retire to Cyprus with my wife Karen.

However, it turns out that retirement wasn't my forte, I got bored. I do have a qualification in distillation from the Institute of Brewing and Distillation in the UK and had planned to start up an eco friendly gin distillery in Cyprus but that was in 2020 and we all know what happened then.

So after COVID we decided to open a gin bar in a village called Kouklia in Paphos district and we are still running it today. You will of course be wondering how any of this has anything to do with writing books.

I had never even thought about writing books. I did however learn how to how to create 3D images with an application called Daz Studio and in 2023 I made this image of the little girl and the robot.

I looked at the image and thought, what is the story?

And so, three years later I decided to write it. My original thought had been that the little girl could move ahead in time by one second which would enable her to hide from danger. I changed that as I was writing the book and she became Kate ...... The Girl Who Stepped Out of Time.

I hope that you enjoy reading about her adventures as much as I am enjoying writing them and creating the world of The Construct.

You can find more of my work at my other website, https://blackhalostudio.com

Mal Flawith