The Wizard Master

About the Book

The Wizard Master

The Wizard Master tells the story of Izward, a young computer genius who travels back in time to stop the evil Vulgor from taking over the universe.

Izward lives inside an ancient fort known as the Institute in the middle of a river estuary. Its buildings have been converted to laboratories and their scientists are the best in computer technology. It has its own defences and is completely isolated from the outside world...

Izward is owned and educated by the Mentors, the Institutes Guardians, who hope to use his genius to enhance their wealth and reputation. Izward leads a lonely life devoid of personal relationships. He spends his spare time playing and designing virtual reality games and experiencing the outside world through computerised images...

Beyond the Institute's island fortress is the mainland known as The Abandon Zone. It is an unpopulated area of destruction, which is recovering from the affects of a Nuclear War...

Izward leaves the Institute on an educational field trip and travels across the Abandon Zone with his tutor Wally Zeeman to an isolated lighthouse on the coast...

and is transported back through time to a terrifying world of monsters and nightmares.

About the Author

I was born September 1, 1946 in Manchester, England at the height of a storm. I grew up listening to rain pelting against the roof of our mid-terraced house watching my mother catch raindrops in borrowed metal buckets. Rain in Manchester is unavoidable - something to do with the Pennines, say the weathermen, which accounts for a Manchurian's obsession with the weather.

My father worked in a local foundry battling the heat and grime of post-war industrial Britain until the working conditions got the better of him.

We moved, exchanging city life for an estate overlooking the sea. Here I spent the rest of my childhood looking out to sea imagining life beyond the horizon.

As an adult I embraced teaching and embarked on educating children, a profession I found enjoyable and very rewarding. I obtained a degree in Special Educational Needs and wrote a graded reading scheme for children experiencing reading difficulties

A strong interest in amateur dramatics and theatre production has inspired me to write and produce plays and pantomimes.

Having an inherent fascination for the weather and an imagination far away on the horizons it was only a mater of time before I combined the two and made them a reality. The reality of those daydreams can now be read in my first novel, The Wizard Master.

I hope you have as much fun and excitement reading it as I had writing it.