Matthew Hughes was born sixty years ago in Liverpool, England, but his family moved to Canada when he was five. He's made my living as a writer all of my adult life, first as a journalist, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and – from 1979 until a few years back – as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia.He's a a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers and used to belong to Mensa Canada, but these days he conserves his energies to write fiction. He's been married to a very patient woman since the late 1960s, and has three grown sons.