Mike Watson

I've been an avid reader since I was in elementary school. Our school had a small library and I was allowed to check out books starting in the third grade. My mother was the school's Principal and she insisted that I read a book every two weeks. By the end of the year, I'd read everything in that small school library. My eighth birthday gift was a library card.

I've always written fiction but didn't have an opportunity to devote time to it until just a few years ago. I had twenty years experience writing technical documents, but, I soon discovered that writing fiction is vastly different from writing nonfiction.

"The Beacon at Barrington Light" was my first indie release. All my previous sales had been through traditional channels. My novel, Emigre, was released on April 10, 2020. on Amazon.

Subsequent to "Émigré," the next to be released is a collection of short stories, including a novella, based in the same Tri Cluster Confederacy universe. The collection, titled "Dundee Orbital," was released at the end of July 2020.