About Ian

I grew up in the terrific little NSW town of Gundagai. My secondary education was at a boarding school in Sydney. I ended up at the University of NSW where a Bachelor of Arts degree was leading me to becoming a teacher of English and History. Then I sold a television script.

That TV show was a situation comedy called Kingswood Country and it led to me writing on a number of TV shows, oodles of radio comedies and publishing a magazine for kids.

After a couple of decades scribbling, the family and I relocated to Vanuatu for a few years. While in Port Vila I was Executive Producer for an internet travel agency, Travel Online, and I wrote a travel book about Australia, The Small Guide to a Big Country.

On return to Australia, I set up my own online travel agency, specialising in arranging weddings and honeymoons in the South Pacific. All was going swimmingly until the MS diagnosis and I was eventually forced to close the business. After a few years consulting to resorts in Vanuatu, I returned to creative writing in 2020 and that led to this wee project, MSing About.

For a complete biography, here is a link to my personal website.