About the author

Ian Hall-Dixon

<p class="Paragraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">A career in engineering starting with an apprenticeship in the hard knock world of a north-east of England iron foundry, progressing&nbsp; over the years as draughtsman, soldier, civil servant, and for the last thirty years, as a consultant design engineer. This latter period included for a great deal of authorship, often creative and sometimes innovative, but always focussed on the production of engineering specifications, schedules and technical reports.</p> <p class="Paragraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">In 2003 a spark finally ignited the fire that had waited for many years to be lit and the openly creative process was under way, making me something of a late starter. The purely creative, mainly in the form of poetry, had to be carefully interleaved with the everyday job where a split personality may very well have been an advantage; I guess we can&rsquo;t have everything in this life.</p> <p class="Paragraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">I have always been a fan of science fact, fiction and speculation from being a young man and finally, I am now putting ideas into words.</p> <p class="Paragraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class="Paragraph">Ian Hall-Dixon &copy; 2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p class="Paragraph">contact:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ihd-creativewrite@outlook.com<span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Paragraph"><span style="color:windowtext">poetry:</span><span style="color:blue">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><a href="http://allpoetry.com/"><u><span style="color:black;text-underline:black; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">allpoetry.com</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="Paragraph"><span style="color:windowtext">facebook:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/HI-Publications/1446018022348592">facebook</a></span></u></p>