About the author

Sean Batman

<p><strong>WHO AM I ?</strong></p><p>Born 1976. Spent some time in the USA. Then grew up in Caringbah, The Sutherland Shire, and will never apologise for it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Writing</strong></p><p>I&#39;ve been writing since&nbsp;the age of seven. Most of my&nbsp;earlier works&nbsp;plagiarised films, such as Mad Max and Superman (ironic, I know). For many years I&nbsp;wrote for others, so it&#39;s refreshing to be able to craft stories around things that interest me. The writing I&#39;m currently doing&nbsp;is focused on&nbsp;my old stomping ground -&nbsp;The Shire and is mostly set in the &#39;80s and &#39;90s. For me, place and how it shapes you as a person&nbsp;is what interests me most.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p><strong>Influences</strong></p><p>Plenty. But some who really inspire me are: Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegutt,&nbsp;John Steinbeck, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, TC Boyle, JD Salinger, Tim Winton, Joe R Lansdale, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, Philip K Dick, Cormac McCarthy&nbsp;and Shakespeare.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p><strong>Other stuff</strong></p><p>I&#39;m a&nbsp;surfer, so being in the ocean with some swell and offshore&nbsp;wind&nbsp;is magic.&nbsp;I&nbsp;love surfboards and&nbsp;have quite the collection of eclectic craft. I play in a band, &#39;Salty&#39;.&nbsp;We&#39;re pretty&nbsp;big in Japan. I&nbsp;play guitar, banjo, banjolele, kazoo, and&nbsp;do the&nbsp;occasional vocal spot. If I&#39;m not surfing, rehearsing, or writing,&nbsp;I&#39;m raising&nbsp;four kids. Actually, they&#39;re raising me.&nbsp;I&#39;m also a fulltime teacher. Once upon a time, I used to play video games and watch moving pictures on a screen&nbsp;- I&nbsp;think it was called television.&nbsp;I currently reside in the Illawarra. I dream of writing full time...</p>