About the author

F J Shindler

Originally from Manchester, UK, my former profession as a technical author almost always entailed living apart from home and family for the duration of the respective client contract.&nbsp; Typically months at a time, the client-site would usually be in a town or city that was new to me.&nbsp; In the main, living and working in different parts of the nation was enjoyable.&nbsp; But it was a life-style that could be both challenging and lonely if not managed carefully.&nbsp; In my case, fiction writing proved to be my escape.<br>​<br>At the time, my preference was short stories rather than long fiction.&nbsp; After hour upon hour of brain-churning technical research, composing short fiction in the evenings and week-ends allowed my busy mind to wander outside the rigid, template-confined world that is procedure writing.<br>&nbsp;<br>Some years before retirement, my family and I left the UK to embark upon a renovation project in a very rural part of the Czech Republic.&nbsp; &nbsp;It, too, has been challenging, and we have lost count of the number of times one or both of us has voiced, <em>what the heck were we thinking?!</em>&nbsp; Thankfully, we're past that stage and are now settled in a rather charming <strong><em>English Cottage</em></strong> styled former farmhouse in the foothills of the Beskydy mountains, a beautiful place to live that offers endless rural pastimes.&nbsp; It is here that I have turned to longer fiction, enabled for the most part by a more relaxed life-style.<br> <br>