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THE STORY OF THE BOOK
After the stunning success of Time Twister (42,000 copies, hard back edition, reprints) I really though I could do this seriously, for a living! I was finally a success at something! And I thought it was going to be easy. Hah!
Silicone Stew was my first book to be directly inspired by a dream. It was rewritten 3 times (4 versions in all) before it was accepted. And on the way I learned a lot about how to write. After all, I'd written Time Twister purely on instinct.
In all it took five years.
The first two versions of Stew were written as before, by hand, then typed up by paid typists. It cost a lot! Then in 1987 I bought my first computer, an Amstrad PCW 5286. I loved my old PCW and it gave me sterling (if grindingly slow) service until 1996 when I leap-frogged a decade of computer developments (and MS-DOS, thank God!) to a mainstream machine with Windows 95. I immediately hated the new machine. The PCW had features that this thing still doesn't have!
Ironically, up until July of 1999, none of the books written on the new machine had produced a single success.
Sadly, Silicone Stew went out of print in 1995.
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