Date and Place of Birth: 14 June 1949, London, England
2010
Author: Coping with Difficult People Ghostwriting: two books Teaching: teaching writing part-time at the Vale Street Centre Lyrics judge: Australian Songwriters Association (ASA) Currently writing: ‘Coping with Parents’, a follow-up to the Difficut People book.
2009
Jan-Feb: got sick with Large Vessel Vasculitis (look it up) and couldn’t do anything. Ghostwriting: three books Bookshop: worked Sundays at the Bookplate Hornsby until it sold in March. Teaching: teaching writing part-time at the Vale Street Centre. Lyrics judge: Australian Songwriters Association (ASA)
2008
Author: South Side Story, The First 100 Years, (Wilkinson Publishing)
Ghostwriting: four books this year, about the sharemarket, real estate, sales and leadership.
Co-authoring: Up-dated Tom O’Toole’s Breadwinner,
Teaching: teaching writing at the Katoomba Day/Night College and the Vale Street Centre
Still writing: The Tiny Tim biography and still interviewing Martin Sharp.
Bookshop: I work Sundays at a secondhand bookshop called the Bookplate, 173 Pacific Highway, Hornsby
Lyrics: Lyrics judge for the Australian Songwriters Association (ASA).
2007
Ghostwriting: Two books only because I helped our builder renovate the house.
Writing: My account of the Martin Sharp story, which was 250,000 words as an initial draft.
Journalism: interview with Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage for the Brisbane Courier Mail and the Melbourne Herald.
Bookshop: I work Sundays at a secondhand bookshop called the Bookplate, 173 Pacific Highway, Hornsby
Lyrics: Lyrics judge for the Australian Songwriters Association (ASA).
2006
Author: Busted, 17 Mythbuster Classics That Could Happen To You, (Wilkinson Publishing) Currently co-authoring: with Dominic Alafaci - plus anonymous ghostwriting Still writing: The Tiny Tim biography and still interviewing Martin Sharp
2005
Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Currently co-authoring: with Dean Cowley Writing: The Tiny Tim biography
2004
Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Author: The Business Method, Pennon Publishing Co-author: Go For Your Life (with Chris Gray) Pennon Publishing
On The End Of A Wire (with Peter Davidson) Pennon Publishing
2003
Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) DVD newsletter (with Peter Blasina): Forward – the Business and Technology
Letter Lyrics: I Never Saw The Cat – Owl Broadhurst CD
2002
Theatre: The Musical Life of Tiny Tim (July-August) (Wilkinson Productions) Editing: (July) Deliver Us From Evil by Kay Danes (Crown Content) Editor: Who’s Who Leadership Letter (January-June) (Crown Content) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Author: The Method, A Writer’s Handbook (Pennon Publishing) Co-author: Breadwinner II (with Tom O’Toole) (Crown Content)
Guilty To Driza Bone (with Frank Fisher) (Crown Content) Ghost-writing: (***)
2001
Editor: Who’s Who Leadership Letter (Crown Content) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Editing: 10 Days In Laos by Paul Conroy (Crown Content) Co-author: Secrets of the Beechworth Bakery (with Tom O’Toole & Matthew
McLaurin) (Crown Content)
Risky Business (with Clare Loewenthal) (Crown Content)
My Dad Thinks I Rob Banks (with Joe Sammon) (Information Australia) Anthologies: Australia’s Best Poetry (Inner Kiss Publishing)
Visions From The Valley, Poetry of the Hunter Valley 1960-2000 (Catchfire Press)
2000
Editor: Who’s Who Leadership Letter (Crown Content) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy) Author: The Complete Tiny Tim Interviews (Khaury Internet Publishing) Co-author: The Women’s Club (with Di Williams) (Information Australia)
Breadwinner (with Tom O’Toole) (Information Australia)
Brash Business (with Geoff Brash) (Information Australia)
1999
Editor: Who’s Who Leadership Letter (Crown Content) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy) Author: The Australian Handbook of Business Letters (updated) (Information
Australia) Co-author: Beyond Azaria (with Michael Chamberlain) (Information Australia)
No More Cellulite Fast (with Violetta Chevall) (Information Australia)
The Australian Handbook of Business Letters (updated) (Information Australia) Musical: Apocalypse Rider (with Robert Wolfgramm)
1998
Editor: Franchising Magazine (HH&M Media) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy) Ghostwriter: (***)
Co-author: Gold Beyond Your Dreams (with Heather Turland) (Information Australia) CD: The Worst of The Wilts
Editor: Franchising Magazine (HH&M Media)
Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries)
Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy)
Contributor: Dynamic Small Business and other publications
1995
Editor: Franchising Magazine (HH&M Media) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy) Contributor: Asian Retailer, Dynamic Small Business and other publications Teaching: Business Communications (Meadowbank TAFE) (all year)
Business Writing (Royal North Shore Hospital)
Casual school teaching (Turramurra High)
Creative Writing (Chatswood Evening College)
Business Writing (Chatswood Evening College
1994
Editor: Dynamic Small Business magazine (Enterprise Publications) Editor: Time Management (NGT Diaries)
Associate editor: Franchising magazine (HH&M Media) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy)
Regular columnist: Success magazine (re-named SRM)
1993
Founding Editor: Dynamic Small Business magazine (Enterprise Publications) Editor/owner: Time Management Associate editor: Franchising magazine (HH&M Media) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy) Regular columnist: Success magazine
1992
Editor: Small Business Letter (Huntley Publishing) Editor/owner: Time Management Associate editor: Franchising magazine (HH&M Media) Writer: Kwik-Kopy Contact newsletter (Kwik Kopy) Ghostwriter: Three unpublished books Regular columnist: Success magazine Teaching: Author-In-The-Classroom (Barker College, Sydney)
1991
Editor: Small Business Letter (Huntley Publishing) Editor/owner: Time Management Author: 17 Small Business Success Stories (The Business Library) Teaching: Business Writing (Bondi Business College) (one semester)
1990
Editor: Small Business Letter (International Business Communications) Editor: Time Management (South Continent Corporation) Author: The Australian Handbook Of Business Letters (up-dated) (Information
Australia)
The Australian Handbook Of Business Letters On Disk (Information Australia)
1967! This Is It (Generation Books)
1991
Editor: Small Business Letter (International Business Communications) Editor: Time Management (South Continent Corporation) Fill-in Editor: The Margaret Gee Media Letter (Information Australia) Author: The Australian Handbook Of Business Letters (Information Australia) Anthology: All The Best, A Selection Celebrating 25 Years Of Puffins In Australia
(Penguin Australia) Ghostwriter: (***)
1988
Editor: Small Business Letter (Information Australia) Editor: Time Management (Information Australia) Fill-in Editor: The Margaret Gee Media Letter (Information Australia) Author: The Secret Gang Of OomLau (The Five Mile Press) Guest Lecturer: Poetry, Pop Music and Pop Art (Monash University, Department
of Anthropology & Sociology,)
1987
Editor: Small Business Letter (Information Australia) Editor: Time Management (Information Australia) Fill-in Editor: The Investment Adviser (Information Australia)
Health '87 (Information Australia)
1986
Editor: Small Business Letter (Australian Newsletter Publishers) Founding editor: Time Management (Australian Newsletter Publishers) Fill-in Editor: The Investment Adviser (Australian Newsletter Publishers) Ghostwriter: (***)
1985
Freelance writer Painting Prize: Special Commendation, Caltex Award, Bega NSW LP Record: Persecution Games, (lyrics & concept). Cover: Martin Sharp.
Music: Robert Wolfgramm) School teaching: Senior English, Scots College, Bellevue Hill
(one week only) Contributor: The Small Business Letter, The Investment Adviser Music: The Wilts LP Record: Persecution Games Ghostwriter: one novel Film Music: Cool Change (a yachting movie)
1984
Freelance writer Feature article: Azaria's Rock (Rolling Stone magazine, April 1984) Ghostwriter: (***) Anthology: Roland Harvey's Incredible Book Of Almost Everything (The Five Mile
Press) Contributor: The Small Business Letter, The Investment Adviser Music: The Wilts
1983
Freelance writer Author: Cliff Young's Health Secrets (Ward & Blake) Ghostwriter: Three books Contributor: Various publications, both national and regional
1982
Freelance writer Associate Editor: The Southern Flyer Author: Taylor's Troubles (Penguin Australia) Co-author: (With Phil Ward and James Ward) The Pocket Encyclopaedia Of Australian
Investment (Australian Newsletter Publishers) Contributor (magazines): The Virgin Press, Parade, Pol, The Grass Roots Family
Book, Contributor (newsletters): The Small Business Letter, The Investment Adviser
1981
Freelance writer Contributor: The Small Business Letter, The Investment Adviser Author: The Edges Of Seventh-day Adventism (Galilee Publishing) Ghostwriter: Four books
1980
Awarded: $10,000 Young Writer's Fellowship, Australia Arts Council Author: Thank God For The Salvos, The Salvation Army In Australia 1880-1980,
Harper & Row
1979
Professional fisherman and freelance writer Editor: One Man's Walk, by James Ward (Ward & Blake) Ghostwriter: (***) Contributor: Fishing News and Professional Fisherman (Rala Publications) The
Small Business Letter, The Investment Adviser (Australian Newsletter Publishers)
1975-78
Schoolteacher Teaching: English-History at Sydney Seventh-day Adventist High School Plays: The Sword & The Shield and Jonah (re-write with music by Lester
Silver). Also: Galilee Records
1974
Schoolteacher Teaching: English-History at Sion Catholic Girls College, Warragul, Victoria
Creative Writing teacher at Warragul Adult Education (Victorian Department
of Education) Plays: I Wanna Be A Teenage Idol, Jonah
1973
Dip Ed – Newcastle College of Advance Education Plays: Mona & The Morgan Prince, Martin Luther
1968-72
BA (Pacific Union College, California– conferred by Avondale College NSW) Co-author: Threedom (with Robert Wolfgramm)
1962-1967
High school – Sydney Adventist High School, Strathfield
1960-1961
Primary school – Woollara Primary, Sydney
1959
Bradfield Park Primary, Sydney Dulwich Hill Primary, Sydney St Andrews Primary, Southgate, London
